Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.

Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death.

Hebron was previously named Kirjath-arba. Arba was a great man among the Anakims. The land (and its people) had rest from war.

Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:

So, on the west side of the Jordan River they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

They were given the city of Arba. Arba was Anak's father. Arba is now called Hebron. It is in the hill country of Judah, along with the pastureland surrounding it.

And for the villages with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba (Hebron) and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,