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Strong's #669 - אֶפְרַיִם
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- Ephraim = "double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful"
- second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh
- the tribe, Ephraim
- the mountain country of Ephraim
- sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah)
- a city near Baal-hazor
- a chief gate of Jerusalem
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1 2nd son of Joseph Genesis 41:52; Genesis 46:20; reckoned among sons of Jacob, blessed by him, and given preference over Manasseh Genesis 48:1,5,13,14,17 (twice in verse) (compare Genesis 48:19) Genesis 48:20; Genesis 48:20; Genesis 50:23; Numbers 1:10; 1 Chronicles 7:20,22.
2בְּנֵי אֶפְרַיִם (= descendants, tribe of east) Numbers 1:32; Numbers 2:18 (twice in verse); Numbers 2:24; Numbers 7:48; Numbers 10:22; Numbers 26:35,37; Joshua 16:5,9 (boundaries of territory), Joshua 17:8; 1 Chronicles 9:3; 1 Chronicles 12:31; 1 Chronicles 27:10,14,20; 2 Chronicles 28:12; less often ׳מַטֵּה א Numbers 1:33; Numbers 13:8; Joshua 21:5; 1 Chronicles 6:51; ׳מַטֵּה בְנֵיאֿ Numbers 34:24; Joshua 16:8; compare Joshua 14:4; ׳שֵׁבֶט א Psalm 78:67 ("" אֹהֶל יוֺסֵף); ׳בֵּית א Judges 10:9; also ׳א alone, tribe Ephraim Numbers 26:28; Deuteronomy 33:17; Joshua 16:10 + often; וּמְנַשֶּׁה׳אֶרֶין א Joshua 17:17 compare Judges 12:15; 2 Chronicles 30:10 especially
3 הַראֶֿפְרַיִם the mountain-country of Ephraim, a ridge stretching from north to south through territory assigned to Ephraim, with fruitful land on both slopes, especially the western (compare D1Joshua 16:1) Joshua 17:15; Joshua 19:50; Joshua 20:7; Judges 2:9; Judges 3:27; Judges 4:5 26t.
4 by Hosea & Isaiah (rarely later) אֶפְרַיִם = kingdom of northern Israel (from Ephraim as largest & strongest tribe in it) Hosea 4:17; Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 ("" יִשְׂרָאֵל) Hosea 5:11; Hosea 5:12 30t. Hosea; Isaiah 7:2,5,8,9,17 9t. Isaiah; also Jeremiah 7:15; Jeremiah 31:9,18,20; Ezekiel 37:16 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 37:19; Psalm 78:9; 2 Chronicles 25:7,10; compare 2 Chronicles 30:1; Psalm 60:9 = Psalm 108:9; ׳עָרֵי א 2 Chronicles 17:2; compare 2 Chronicles 34:6; ׳שְׂדֵה א Obadiah 19; hence ׳א alone in local sense 2 Chronicles 31:1; also Hosea 5:9, where feminine (& perhaps Isaiah 7:2).
5יִעַר אֶפְרַיִם 2 Samuel 18:6, east of Jordan; ᵐ5 L Klo read יער מַחֲנַיִם compare 2 Samuel 17:24,27.
6 name of a city near Baal-hazor 2 Samuel 13:23 (= Ἐφραϊμ John 11:54 & 1 Maccabees 11:34? Klo compare ᵐ5 L Γοφραιμ & עפרון, Qr עֶפְרַיִן 2 Chronicles 13:9; so previously Bö Th Ke compare Dr).
7שַׁעַר אֶפְרַיִם a chief gate of Jerusalem 2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chronicles 25:23; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 12:39; perhaps at northwest angle, near Holy Sepulchre, compare Schick-Guthe ZPV:1885.
אֶפְרָת see אפרתה. below
אֶפְרַיִם (perhaps, “double land,” “twin land,” comp. מִעְרַיִם), pr.n.
(1) Ephraim, the younger son of Joseph, ancestor of the tribe of Ephraim (בְּנֵי אֶפְרַיִם Numbers 10:22 and simply אֶפְרַיִם Joshua 16:10), the boundaries of which, about the middle of the Holy Land are described, Joshua 16:5, seq. In this region was הַר אֶפְרַיִם “mount,” or “the mountain region of Ephraim,” Joshua 19:50, 20:7 21:21 Judges 2:9, 3:27. But different from this is “the wood of Ephraim,” 2 Samuel 18:6 which, from the narrative, must be beyond Jordan (comp. -2 Sa. 17:2429 ); probably so called from the slaughter, of the Ephraimites, -Judges 12:16. 2 Samuel 13:23, עִם אֶפְרַיִם “at Ephraim,” i.e. within the boundaries of the tribe.
Ephraim, as being the royal tribe, is applied as a name
(2) of the whole kingdom and people of the ten tribes, especially in the books of the prophets, Isaiah 9:8, 17:3 28:3 Hosea 4:17, 5:3, seq.; 9:3, seq.; Isaiah 7:2, “Syria rests עַל אֶפְרַיִם upon the borders of Ephraim.” Where the land is signified it is fem. Hosea 5:9 where the people, m. Isaiah 7:8. Comp. אֶפְרָת No. 2.
