This document is about Ophrah (Gideon's_hometown). For other homonyms, please refer to the Ophrah document. It is the hometown of Gideon. In the Bible, it is mentioned as the land of his father, Joash (Gideon's father).
Judges 6:11Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
Judges 6:24That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.
Judges 8:27So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.Judges 8:28Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.Judges 8:29Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.Judges 8:30His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.Judges 8:31Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.Judges 8:32As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
Judges 9:5All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.