Ophir
Regionaka Ophir
Some region famous for its gold (1 Kings 9:28; 10:11; 22:48; Job 22:24; 28:16; Isa. 13:12). In the LXX. this word is rendered “Sophir,” and “Sofir” is the Coptic name for India, which is the rendering of the Arabic version, as also of the Vulgate. Josephus has identified it with the Golden Chersonese, i.e., the Malay peninsula. It is now generally identified with Abhira, at the mouth of the Indus. Much may be said, however, in favour of the opinion that it was somewhere in Arabia.
27.5000, 67.5000
Key verses
Psalms 45:9
Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn’t go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
1 Kings 9:28
They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Isaiah 13:12
I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
Job 22:24
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Job 28:16
It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.