The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Ophrah was a village over which Gideon’s father, Joash, exercised a strong influence (Judges 6:11; cf. Judges 6:24). Its exact location is uncertain, but it appears to have been in the Jezreel Valley.