Machpelah

[ mak-pee-lah ]

noun

1. the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, said in the Bible to be the burial place of Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah.

Example Sentences

WBOY-TV reports the damage happened recently at the Machpelah Cemetery in Weston.

From Washington Times

We went on little pilgrimages, in our cars and buses – to Rachel’s Tomb on the road to Bethlehem or the putative Machpelah Cave near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were said to be buried.

From The Guardian

Her sister, 50-year-old Virginia Machpelah was one of the 94 psychiatric patients who died following a move from facilities run by Life Esidimeni, a private healthcare company last year to various care homes in Gauteng province, around Johannesburg.

From BBC

The most conspicuous building is the Haram built over the supposed site of the cave of Machpelah.

From Project Gutenberg

The precise subjects made over to Abraham are also detailed with all the accuracy of a legal document—“the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.”

From Project Gutenberg