Definition

Makpelah, a place in Palestine

Etymology

from H3717 (כָּפַל); a fold;

Word family

• כָּפַל kâphal

How the KJV renders it

• Machpelah

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.