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Chephar-ammoni meaning

כפר העמני

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🔼The name Chephar-ammoni: Summary

Village Of The People, Village Of The Ammonites
From (1) the noun כפר (kapar), village, and (2) the noun עם ('am), people or kinsman.

🔼The name Chephar-ammoni in the Bible

The name Chephar-ammoni occurs once in the Bible. It's the name of a village that came to be situated in the territory allotted to the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:24).

🔼Etymology of the name Chephar-ammoni

The name Chephar-ammoni obviously exists of two (or rather three) elements. The first element is the word כפר (kapar), meaning village:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary


Noun כפר (koper) describes the price of a human life, i.e. the purchasing price and maintenance costs of keeping a person out of slavery. This is not simply a single sum of money but rather an economic protective layer of all sorts of hedges and investments. The noun כפרים (kippurim) is in fact a plural of the previous and denotes a massive free-buying and free-keeping of many people at once. Noun כפרת (kapporet) is the technical term for the cover of the Ark of the Covenant; the Mercy Seat.


The final part of our name comes from the name Ammon and is an ethnonym meaning Ammonites. The name Ammon in turn comes from the noun עם ('am), meaning people or nation:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary


Preceding the word עמוני (Ammonites) is the letter ה (he), which is either the definite article or a particle that governs motion toward: the or to/of.

🔼Chephar-ammoni meaning

The whole name Chephar-ammoni would mean something like Village Of The People, but most commentators interpret this name simply as Village Of The Ammonites.