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Strong's #0669 - אֶפְרַיִם
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Ephraim = “double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful”
1) second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh
2) the tribe, Ephraim
3) the mountain country of Ephraim
4) sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah)
5) a city near Baal-hazor
6) 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.
