Associations to the word «Ophir»

Wiktionary

OPHIR, proper noun. A city or region mentioned in the Bible, modern scholars have been unable to determine where it was located. King Solomon is supposed to have received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks from Ophir, every three years.
OPHIR, proper noun. A ghost town in Alaska.
OPHIR, proper noun. A town in Colorado.
OPHIR, proper noun. A town in Utah.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats