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Ophni
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
Mouldy, a city of Benjamin (Josh. 18:24).
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Smith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
(mouldy), a town of Benjamin, mentioned in (Joshua 18:24) the same as the Gophna of Josephus a place which at the time of Vespasian’s invasion was apparently so important as to be second only to Jerusalem. It still survives in the modern Jifna or Jufna, 23 miles northwest of Bethel.
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Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
OPH'NI (mouldy), a town in Benjamin. Josh 18:24. It was probably identical with (Jophna of Josephus and with the modern village of Jufna, or Jifna, about 2 or 3 miles north-west of Bethel. It was an important town in the time of Vespasian.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
wearisomeness; folding together
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
OPH'NI (mouldy), a town in Benjamin. Josh 18:24. It was probably identical with (Jophna of Josephus and with the modern village of Jufna, or Jifna, about 2 or 3 miles north-west of Bethel. It was an important town in the time of Vespasian.