Ophni

Ophni

Ophni is a Hebrew Old Testament name meaning mouldy.

A city of Benjamin (Joshua 18:24) so important as to be second only to Jerusalem. It still survives in the modern Jifna or Jufna, 23 miles northwest of Bethel.


This article incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), a publication now in the public domain.


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