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Meaning and etymology of the name Hebron
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Hebron 
The name Hebron occurs three times in the Bible. The most famous Hebron is a city in Canaan, which was originally named Kiriath-arba (Genesis 23:2). Abraham lives in its vicinity and he buys a cave there from the sons of Heth to bury Sarah (Genesis 23). Moses sends spies to check out Hebron's defenses (Numbers 13:22), Joshua conquers it (Joshua 10), expels the enigmatic Anakim from it (Joshua 14:12), gives it to Caleb (Joshua 14:14), pronounces it to be in the territory of Judah and assigns it to the Kohathite Levites (Joshua 21:11). Later God Himself gives Hebron to king David as the capital of his kingdom (2 Samuel 2:1).
Other Hebrons are a son of Kohath (Exodus 6:12), and a man from Judah (1 Chronicles 2:43).
The name Hebron comes from  (habar) meaning be joined, coupled, allied. Derivatives are: (heber), meaning company, association; (haber), meaning associate, companion;  (hoberet), a joint (a connection, such as used in the tabernacle Exodus 26:10); (habbar), associate, partner;  (mehabbera), binder, clamp.
The waw-nun extension denotes a localization of the root. The name Hebron means Place Of Alliance or Allied Town. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Confederation.
Another name based on the same root is Heber
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