machpelah in English
noun
cave in Hebron which is the site of the Tomb of the Patriarchs (burial place of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah)
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1. For instance, Abraham himself never owned any part of Canaan —except for the cave of Machpelah, which he purchased as a burial place.
2. Joseph is a fruitful Bough, even a fruitful Bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: Genesis 49:30 View whole chapter See verse in context In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham Bough t with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.