Ophrah

Ophrah (meaning fawn or lead) was the name of two towns in ancient Israel and a personal name. The most significant was Ophrah of the Abiezrites in Manasseh — the hometown of Gideon (Joash the Abiezrite's son), where the angel of the LORD appeared to him under the oak tree and commissioned him to deliver Israel from Midian (Judges 6:11–24). Gideon built an altar there called Yahweh is Peace and later made a gold ephod there from the spoils of battle, which became a snare to Israel (Judges 8:27). He was buried at Ophrah (Judges 8:32).

A second Ophrah was a town in Benjamin (Joshua 18:23; 1 Samuel 13:17), possibly the modern village of et-Taiyibeh north of Bethel. The personal name Ophrah also appears in 1 Chronicles 4:14 as a Judahite.