35 | | | II. 251; Sh. XIII.) | | | | =OPHEL= |2 Chr. xxvii. | |-- |A part of ancient | 3; xxxiii. | | | Jerusalem, south of | 14; Neh. | | | the Temple enclosure. | iii. 26, 27; | | | | xi. 21 | | | | | | | =OPHIR= |Gen. x. 29; |_Not |-- |Probably Southern | 1 Kings ix. | identified_ | | Arabia. _See_ Smith’s | 28; x. 11; | | | _Bible Dictionary_. | xxii. 48; 1 | | | | Chr. i. 23; | | | | xxix. 4; 2 | | | | Chr. viii. | | | | 18; ix. 10; | | | | Job xxii. | | | | 24; xxviii. | | | | 16; Ps. xlv. | | | | 9; Isaiah | | | | xiii. 12; | | | | Tobit xiii. | | | | 17 | | | | | | | =OPHNI= |Josh. xviii. |_Jufna_ (?) |10 |A town of Benjamin. | 24 | | | Supposed by some to | | | | be Jufna, the Gophna | | | | of Josephus, 3 miles | | | | north-west of Bethel, | | | | but this would perhaps | | | | place it outside | | | | Benjamin. (_Mem._ II.; | | | | Sh. XIV.) | | | | =OPHRAH= (1) |Josh. xviii. |_et Taiyibeh_ |10 |‘Five Roman miles | 23; 1 Sam. | | | east of Bethel’ | xiii. 17 | | | (Onomasticon). This | | | | appears to point to | | | | the present large | | | | village Taiyibeh. | | | | (_Mem._ II. 293; Sh. | | | | XIV.) | | | | =OPHRAH= (2) |Jud. vi. 11, |_Ferʾata_ (?)*|10 |Probably the present | 24; viii. | | | village Ferʾata, | 27, 32; ix. 5| | | 6 miles west of | | | | Shechem, the old name