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the city of Arba the Anakite (Ge 13:18; 23:2; Jos 14:15; 15:54; 20:7; 21:11; Ne 11:25). Hebron was the original name, then Mamre ("the sacred grove near the town"), then Kirjath Caleb restored the name Hebron. (See HEBRON.)
And Abram moved his tent and came and lived in the oaks of Mamre, which is in Hebron. And he built an altar to Jehovah there.
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; that one was a great man among the giants. And the land had rest from war.
and Humtah, and Kirjath-arba; it is Hebron; and Zior; nine cities and their villages;
And they set apart Kadesh in Galilee, in the hills of Naphtali; and Shechem in the hills of Ephraim; and Kirjath-arba (it is Hebron) in the hills of Judah.
And they gave them the city of Arba, the father of Anak (it is Hebron) in the hills of Judah, with its open lands around it.
And for the villages, with their fields, some of the sons of Judah lived at Kirjath-arba, and in its villages, and at Dibon, and in its villages, and at Jekabzeel, and its villages,