Brown Driver Briggs

 Hepher = "a well"
n pr m
1. youngest son of Gilead and head of the family of Hepherites
2. son of Asher, the father of Tekoa
3. the Mecherathite, one of David's mighty warriors
n pr loc
4. a place in ancient Canaan, west of the Jordan, conquered by Joshua
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  1) a place in Judah, probably the same as 4 above