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- proper noun A city or region mentioned in the
Bible , modern scholars have been unable to determine where it was located. King Solomon is supposed to have received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks from Ophir, every three years.
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Examples
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"It's lucky I called Ophir and had those men sent over here," were his first words.
Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962
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It gives the history of all the travels in that region, and the chief works concerning it from the earliest time; the routes to Mount Sinai; the voyages of Hiram and Solomon through the Red Sea to India; an interesting discussion of the name Ophir; the different groups of mountains in this region; the Bedouin tribes of the peninsula, and of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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Ophir -- derived from a Hebrew word "dust," namely, gold dust.
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A volcano mountain, south of Ophir, is short of that in height by: 1377 feet.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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An eighteenth of the Ophir was a fortune to John D. Winters -- and the Ophir can't beat the Johnson any .....
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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An eighteenth of the Ophir was a fortune to John D. Winters -- and the Ophir can't beat the Johnson any .....
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Mark Twain 1872
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Ophir, which is buying Dominion Petroleum Ltd., will be joined by Mubadala Oil & Gas of Abu Dhabi to explore Block 7 in Tanzania.
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Five others also have reached Ophir, which is 687 miles from the finish in Nome on Alaska's windswept western coast.
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This country belonged formerly to the Jews, and became useful for shipping from the donations of Hiram king of Tyre; for he sent a sufficient number of men thither for pilots, and such as were skillful in navigation, to whom Solomon gave this command: That they should go along with his own stewards to the land that was of old called Ophir, but now the Aurea Chersonesus, which belongs to India, to fetch him gold.
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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We stopped at Virginia for three days, -- saw the California of '49 reënacted in a feverish, gambling, mining town, -- descended to the bottom of the exhaustlessly rich "Ophir" shaft, -- came up again, and resumed our way across the Sierra.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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