Joshua 18:23

WEB

Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

KJV

And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,

Commentary

Commentary

And Avim, and Parah,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else: and Ophrah is not the same with Ophrah in Jdg 6:11 ; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, Sa1 13:17 . Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says (o), in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this. (o) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.