Every Name in Tanakh

עוֹפַי Ephai

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 166×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

An Israelite. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Jeremiah 40:8.

Jeremiah 40:8ירמיהו מ:ח

וַיָּבֹאוּ אֶל־גְּדַלְיָה הַמִּצְפָּתָה וְיִשְׁמָעֵאל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָהוּ וְיוֹחָנָן וְיוֹנָתָן בְּנֵֽי־קָרֵחַ וּשְׂרָיָה בֶן־תַּנְחֻמֶת וּבְנֵי עופי הַנְּטֹפָתִי וִֽיזַנְיָהוּ בֶּן־הַמַּעֲכָתִי הֵמָּה וְאַנְשֵׁיהֶֽם

then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Ephai?

Ephai — עופי in Hebrew — has a gematria of 166 in the standard method.

How many times is Ephai named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at Jeremiah 40:8.

A spelling is not a name. The written word עופי stands 1 time in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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