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Ophir

Name means “fruitful region”Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary: “Ophir, fruitful region”
First named: 1 Kings 9:28
Region Undetermined
Disputed identification: Its location is disputed; scholars have proposed several different modern sites for it.
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Named in Scripture, but with no story of its own here — kept for the connections graph.

References: 1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11; 1 Kings 22:48; 1 Chronicles 29:4; 2 Chronicles 8:18; 2 Chronicles 9:10; Job 22:24; Job 28:16; Psalm 45:9; Isaiah 13:12

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