Ophir

Location

Type

region

Coordinates

18.2167, 42.5000

Certainty

low (30%)

OpenBible.info: "southwestern Arabia (modern): 30% confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17). The OpenBible entry is for the place named in 1Kgs.9.28, 1Kgs.10.11, 1Kgs.22.48; linking it to the Gen 10 person/people is by name only. OpenBible rates this identification only 30% (southwestern Arabia (modern)); treat the map pin as tentative.

OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (southwestern Arabia (modern)); representative point 42.500000,18.216667 (lon,lat).

• OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• 1 Kings 9:28 (opens in a new tab)
• 1 Kings 10:11 (opens in a new tab)
• 1 Kings 22:48 (opens in a new tab)
• 1 Chronicles 29:4 (opens in a new tab)

Related

• Ophir (son of Joktan)
• Final Territorial Division of the Earth (birth of Peleg)

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.