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Lexicon :: Strong's G2187 - ephraim

Aa
Ἐφραίμ
Transliteration
ephraim (Key)
Pronunciation
ef-rah-im'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
188x in 1 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

†Ἐφραίμ Ephraím, ef-rah-im'; of Hebrew origin (H669 or better H6085); Ephraim, a place in Palestine:—Ephraim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2187 in the following manner: Ephraim (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2187 in the following manner: Ephraim (1x).

  1. Ephraim = "double fruitfulness"

    1. a city about a short day's journey from Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†Ἐφραίμ Ephraím, ef-rah-im'; of Hebrew origin (H669 or better H6085); Ephraim, a place in Palestine:—Ephraim.
STRONGS G2187:
Ἐφραίμ or (so R Tr) Ἐφραΐμ [cf. Ι, ι, at the end], (א L H Ἐφρέμ, Vulg. Ephrem, Efrem), Ephraim, proper name of a city situated, according to Eusebius, eight [but edition Larsow and Parthey, p. 196, 18, twenty], according to Jerome twenty miles from Jerusalem; according to Josephus, b. j. 4, 9, 9 not far from Bethel; conjectured by Robinson (Palest. i. 444f [cf. Bib. Sacr. for May 1845, p. 398f]), Ewald, and others, dissenting, to be the same as the village now called et-Taiyibeh, a short day's journey N. E. of Jerusalem: John 11:54. Cf. Winers RWB under the word; Keim, iii., p. 7f [English translation, v. 9; especially Schürer, Gesch. i. 183].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
11:54

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2187 matches the Greek Ἐφραίμ (ephraim),
which occurs 188 times in 168 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 41:52–Jdg 10:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - Joseph named his second son Ephraim,[fn] for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - Joseph’s sons, born in the land of Egypt, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Their mother was Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:1 - One day not long after this, word came to Joseph, “Your father is failing rapidly.” So Joseph went to visit his father, and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “Now I am claiming as my own sons these two boys of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived. They will be my sons, just as Reuben and Simeon are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - Then he positioned the boys in front of Jacob. With his right hand he directed Ephraim toward Jacob’s left hand, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Jacob’s right hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - But Jacob crossed his arms as he reached out to lay his hands on the boys’ heads. He put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger boy, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, though he was the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - But Joseph was upset when he saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head. So Joseph lifted it to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - So Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing: “The people of Israel will use your names when they give a blessing. They will say, ‘May God make you as prosperous as Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In this way, Jacob put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - He lived to see three generations of descendants of his son Ephraim, and he lived to see the birth of the children of Manasseh’s son Makir, whom he claimed as his own.[fn]

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Ephraim son of JosephElishama son of Ammihud
Manasseh son of JosephGamaliel son of Pedahzur

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 -
Ephraim son of Joseph40,500

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - So the total of all the troops on Ephraim’s side of the camp is 108,100. These three tribes will be third in line whenever the Israelites travel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:48 - On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the tribe of Ephraim, presented his offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22 - Ephraim’s troops went next, marching behind their banner. Their leader was Elishama son of Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:8 -
EphraimHoshea son of Nun

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:28 - Two clans were descended from Joseph through Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:35 - These were the clans descended from the sons of Ephraim: The Shuthelahite clan, named after their ancestor Shuthelah.
The Bekerite clan, named after their ancestor Beker.
The Tahanite clan, named after their ancestor Tahan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 - These were the clans of Ephraim. Their registered troops numbered 32,500. These clans of Manasseh and Ephraim were all descendants of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:24 -
Ephraim son of JosephKemuel son of Shiphtan

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 - Joseph has the majesty of a young bull;
he has the horns of a wild ox.
He will gore distant nations,
driving them to the ends of the earth.
This is my blessing for the multitudes of Ephraim
and the thousands of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2 - all the land of Naphtali; the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; all the land of Judah, extending to the Mediterranean Sea[fn];

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - The descendants of Joseph had become two separate tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. And the Levites were given no land at all, only towns to live in with surrounding pasturelands for their livestock and all their possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:4 - This was the homeland allocated to the families of Joseph’s sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - The following territory was given to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim. The boundary of their homeland began at Ataroth-addar in the east. From there it ran to Upper Beth-horon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - From Tappuah the boundary extended westward, following the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - In addition, some towns with their surrounding villages in the territory allocated to the half-tribe of Manasseh were set aside for the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - They did not drive the Canaanites out of Gezer, however, so the people of Gezer live as slaves among the people of Ephraim to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:8 - The land surrounding Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh’s territory, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - From the spring of Tappuah, the boundary of Manasseh followed the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea.[fn] Several towns south of the ravine were inside Manasseh’s territory, but they actually belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - In general, however, the land south of the ravine belonged to Ephraim, and the land north of the ravine belonged to Manasseh. Manasseh’s boundary ran along the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. North of Manasseh was the territory of Asher, and to the east was the territory of Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - Joshua replied, “If there are so many of you, and if the hill country of Ephraim is not large enough for you, clear out land for yourselves in the forest where the Perizzites and Rephaites live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The descendants of Joseph responded, “It’s true that the hill country is not large enough for us. But all the Canaanites in the lowlands have iron chariots, both those in Beth-shan and its surrounding settlements and those in the valley of Jezreel. They are too strong for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - For the LORD had said he could have any town he wanted. He chose Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. He rebuilt the town and lived there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7 - The following cities were designated as cities of refuge: Kedesh of Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The other families of the Kohathite clan were allotted ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - The rest of the Kohathite clan from the tribe of Levi was allotted the following towns and pasturelands from the tribe of Ephraim:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - Eleazar son of Aaron also died. He was buried in the hill country of Ephraim, in the town of Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:29 - The tribe of Ephraim failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, so the Canaanites continued to live there among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - When he arrived in the hill country of Ephraim, Ehud sounded a call to arms. Then he led a band of Israelites down from the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She would sit under the Palm of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites would go to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - They came down from Ephraim—
a land that once belonged to the Amalekites;
they followed you, Benjamin, with your troops.
From Makir the commanders marched down;
from Zebulun came those who carry a commander’s staff.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon also sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to attack the Midianites. Cut them off at the shallow crossings of the Jordan River at Beth-barah.”
So all the men of Ephraim did as they were told.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Then the people of Ephraim asked Gideon, “Why have you treated us this way? Why didn’t you send for us when you first went out to fight the Midianites?” And they argued heatedly with Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2 - But Gideon replied, “What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren’t even the leftover grapes of Ephraim’s harvest better than the entire crop of my little clan of Abiezer?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 - After Abimelech died, Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo, was the next person to rescue Israel. He was from the tribe of Issachar but lived in the town of Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - The Ammonites also crossed to the west side of the Jordan and attacked Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim.
The Israelites were in great distress.

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2. LOAD PAGE 2 Jdg 12:1–2Ch 34:9

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Neh 8:16–Hos 10:6

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Hos 10:11–Zec 10:7

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