Reference: Mamre
American
1. An Amorite prince, brother of Eshcol and Aner. All three united their forces to aid Abraham in the rescue of Lot, Ge 14. He gave his name to
2. The town where he dwelt, afterwards Hebron, in the suburbs of which was a large terebinth-tree, or grove, (see OAK,) called in the English Bible "the plain of Mamre." Here Abraham and his descendants often pitched their tents, Ge 13:18; 18:1. The cave of Machpelah was adjacent to Mamre on the east, Ge 23:17,19; 49:30; and from the heights nearby, Abraham could see the smoking plain of Sodom, Ge 19:27-28.
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Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
Abraham rose up early and got him to the place where he stood before the LORD, and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace.
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
Easton
manliness. (1.) An Amoritish chief in alliance with Abraham (Ge 14:13,24).
(2.) The name of the place in the neighbourhood of Hebron (q.v.) where Abraham dwelt (Ge 23:17,19; 35:27); called also in Authorized Version (Ge 13:18) the "plain of Mamre," but in Revised Version more correctly "the oaks [marg., 'terebinths'] of Mamre." The name probably denotes the "oak grove" or the "wood of Mamre," thus designated after Abraham's ally.
This "grove" must have been within sight of or "facing" Machpelah (q.v.). The site of Mamre has been identified with Ballatet Selta, i.e., "the oak of rest", where there is a tree called "Abraham's oak," about a mile and a half west of Hebron. Others identify it with er-Rameh, 2 miles north of Hebron.
Illustration: Abraham's Oak
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Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
Fausets
An ancient Amorite. Ge 13:18, "the plain (rather the oaks or terebinths) of Mamre"; Ge 14:13,24, brother of Eshcol, friend and ally of Abraham. The chieftain had planted the terebinths, or was associated with them as his tenting place; so "the oak of Deborah" (Jg 4:5). Mamre was less than a mile from Hebron (Josephus, B. J. 4:9, section 7); but Robinson makes it two Roman miles off, now the hill er Rameh.
Constantine, to suppress the superstitions veneration to the terebinths, erected a basilica or church on the spot. That it was on an elevation appears from the record that Machpelah faces it (Ge 23:17-19; 25:9). Abram resided under the oak grove shade in the interval between his stay at Bethel and at Beersheba (Ge 13:18; 18:1; 20:1; 21:31). If Machpelah be on the N.E. side of the Hebron valley, then Mamre as "facing it" must have been on the opposite slope, where the governor's house now is. (See HEBRON .)
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Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
And Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.
Wherefore the place is called Beersheba, because they sware both of them.
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the city. read more. And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite before Mamre.
and dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel, in mount Ephraim. And the children of Israel came to her for judgment.
Hastings
A name found several times in connexion with the history of Abraham. It occurs (a) in the expression 'terebinths of Mamre' in Ge 13:18; 18:1 (both Jahwist), and Ge 14:13 (from an independent source) with the addition of 'the Amorite'; (b) in the expression 'which is before Mamre,' in descriptions of the cave of Machpelah, or of the field in which it was (Ge 23:17,19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13), and in Ge 35:27, where Mamre is mentioned as the place of Isaac's death; (c) in Ge 14:24 as the name of one of Abraham's allies, in his expedition for the recovery of Lot. In (b) Mamre is an old name, either of Hebron or of a part of Hebron (cf. Ge 23:19; 35:27); in Ge 14:13 it is the name of a local sheik or chief (cf. Ge 14:24), the owner of the terebinths called after him; in Ge 13:18; 18:1 it is not clear whether it is the name of a person or of a place. The 'terebinths of Mamre' are the spot at which Abraham pitched his tent in Hebron. The site is uncertain, though, if the present mosque, on the N.E. edge of Hebron, is really built over the cave of Machpelah, and if 'before' has its usual topographical sense of 'east of,' it will have been to the W. of this, and at no great distance from it (for the terebinths are described as being 'in' Hebron, Ge 13:18). From Josephus' time (BJ, IV. ix. 7) to the present day, terebinths or oaks called by the name of Abraham have been shown at different spots near Hebron; but none has any real claim to mark the authentic site of the ancient 'Mamre.' The oak mentioned by Josephus was 6 stadia from the city; but he does not indicate in which direction it lay. Sozomen (HE ii. 4), in speaking of the 'Abraham's Oak' of Constantine's day (2 miles N. of Hebron), states that it was regarded as sacred, and that an annual fair and feast was held beside it, at which sacrifices were offered, and libations and other offerings cast into a well close by. Cf. Oak.
S. R. Driver.
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Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite before Mamre.
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.
Morish
Mam're
1. An Amorite chieftain, who, with his brothers Aner and Eshcol, was confederate with Abram. Ge 14:13,24.
2. Place connected with Machpelah and Hebron, the name of which is derived from the above chief. Ge 13:18; 18:1; 23:17,19; 35:27; 49:30.
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Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
Smith
Mam're
(strength, fatness) an ancient Amorite, who with his brothers, Eshcol and Aner, was in alliance with Abram,
and under the shade of whose oak grove the patriarch dwelt in the interval between his residence at Bethel and at Beersheba. ch.
In the subsequent chapters Mamre is a mere local appellation. ch,
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Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite before Mamre.
in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.
Watsons
MAMRE, an Amorite, brother of Aner and Eshcol, and friend of Abraham, Ge 14:13. It was with these three persons, together with his own and their domestics, that Abraham pursued and overcame the kings after their conquest of Sodom and Gomorrah.
2. MAMRE, the same as Hebron. In Ge 23:19, it is said, that "Abraham buried Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan." And in Ge 35:27, it is said, that "Jacob came unto Isaac his father, unto Mamre, unto the city of Arba, which is Hebron." The city probably derived its name from that Mamre who joined Abraham in the pursuit of Chedorlaomer, and the rescue of Lot, Genesis 14.
MAMRE, PLAIN OF, a plain near Mamre, or Hebron, said to be about two miles to the south of the town. Here Abraham dwelt after his separation from Lot; here he received from God himself a promise of the land, in which he was then a stranger, for his posterity; here he entertained the angels under an oak, and received a second promise of a son; and here he purchased a burying place for Sarah; which served also as a sepulchre for himself and the rest of his family.
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Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.