oph.rah is a proper place-name used for a town associated with Gideon and for sites named in territorial and travel settings.

The attested forms function as a proper place-name, most often identifying the town connected with Gideon, Joash, and the Abiezrite household in Judges. Other occurrences place the same name in a territorial list, on a route toward the land of Shual, and in a genealogical statement.

1. Gideon's town and household setting · dominant

   In Judges 6:11 the APB renders the messenger sitting under an oak “in Ophrah,” belonging to Joash the Abiezrite; Judges 6:24 and Judges 8:32 likewise identify it with the Abiezrite and Joash. In Judges 8:27 Gideon sets an ephod in his city there, and in Judges 9:5 the APB renders Abimelech coming to his father's house there.

   Judges 6:11Judges 6:24Judges 8:27Judges 8:32Judges 9:5
2. Place named in route, list, and genealogy · common

   In Joshua 18:23 the APB renders the name within a list with Avvim and Parah. In 1 Samuel 13:17 it marks the way toward the land of Shual, while 1 Chronicles 4:14 places it in the statement that Meonothai begot Ophrah.

   Joshua 18:231 Samuel 13:171 Chronicles 4:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB consistently presents the name as “Ophrah,” usually after location language such as “in” or “at.” In 1 Chronicles 4:14 it instead appears as the object of “begot”; these are presentations of the verse clauses rather than word-by-word alignment.