Genesis 23:16
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”
עָבַר
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
כֶּסֶף
silver
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כֶּסֶף
Silver, money. Keseph. Come buy without money and without price. The most valuable things God offers cannot be purchased. They are received by faith.
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בֵּן
the people of
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בֵּן
Son. Ben. A son with full rights. You are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Full rights. Full access. Full inheritance.
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דָבַר
he had spoken
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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עֶפְרוֹן
Ephron
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עֶפְרוֹן
Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine
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מֵאָה
hundreds
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מֵאָה
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
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שֶׁקֶל
shekels of
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שֶׁקֶל
probably a weight; used as a commercial standard
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חֵת
Heth
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חֵת
Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite
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