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Aphrah

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(dust). An uncertain place (Mic. 1:10¹⁰Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. (Micah 1:10)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The margin of Micah 1:10¹⁰Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. (Micah 1:10) explains the name as “house of dust,” so that there is a play upon the word dust: “in the house of dust roll thyself in the dust.” The LXX read “the house in derision.” It may refer to OPHRAH in Joshua 18:23²³And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, (Joshua 18:23) and 1 Samuel 13:17¹⁷And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: (1 Samuel 13:17), a city in the tribe of Benjamin.

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

dust-heap