Place
Ophrah
Uncertain location. Scholars propose different sites. The dot marks one proposal.
Gideon's home town, where the angel found him threshing wheat under an oak. He later made a gold ephod that he set up in Ophrah, and he was buried here. The site is not known for certain.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Gideon, Judges 6:11
And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Gideon, Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
- Gideon, Judges 8:32
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).