H669: אֶפְרַיִם
ʼEphrayim · pronounced ef-rah'-yim · “Ephraim”
Definition
Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV translates it as: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Word origin: dual of masculine form of H672 (אֶפְרָת); double fruit;
Extended definition
son of: Joseph (H3130) and Asenath (H0621);
brother of: Manasseh (H4519);
father of: Shuthelah (H7803), Becher (H1071H), Tahan (H8465), Ezer (H5827), Elead (H0496) and Beriah (H1283H); also called Ephrathite (NIV: Ephraimite) at 1Sa.1.1; Ephron (Qere, KJV: Ephrain) at 2Ch.13.19;
§ 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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H669 is translated
- ephraim ×175
- o ephraim ×4
- is ephraim ×1
Bible verses with H669 (ʼEphrayim)
ʼephrayim appears in 164 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
- Genesis 46:20
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.
- Genesis 48:1
And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Genesis 48:5
And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
- Genesis 48:13
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.
- Genesis 48:14
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
- Genesis 48:17
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
- Genesis 48:20
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
- Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
- Numbers 1:10
Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- Numbers 1:32
Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 1:33
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 2:18
On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 2:24
All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
- Numbers 7:48
On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
- Numbers 10:22
And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 13:8
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
- Numbers 26:28
The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Numbers 26:35
These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
- Numbers 26:37
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
- Numbers 34:24
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
- Deuteronomy 33:17
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
- Deuteronomy 34:2
And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
- Joshua 14:4
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
- Joshua 16:4
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
All 164 references
- Joshua 16:5
- Joshua 16:8
- Joshua 16:9
- Joshua 16:10
- Joshua 17:8
- Joshua 17:9
- Joshua 17:10
- Joshua 17:15
- Joshua 17:17
- Joshua 19:50
- Joshua 20:7
- Joshua 21:5
- Joshua 21:20
- Joshua 21:21
- Joshua 24:30
- Joshua 24:33
- Judges 1:29
- Judges 2:9
- Judges 3:27
- Judges 4:5
- Judges 5:14
- Judges 7:24
- Judges 8:1
- Judges 8:2
- Judges 10:1
- Judges 10:9
- Judges 12:1
- Judges 12:4
- Judges 12:5
- Judges 12:6
- Judges 12:15
- Judges 17:1
- Judges 17:8
- Judges 18:2
- Judges 18:13
- Judges 19:1
- Judges 19:16
- Judges 19:18
- 1 Samuel 1:1
- 1 Samuel 9:4
- 1 Samuel 14:22
- 2 Samuel 2:9
- 2 Samuel 13:23
- 2 Samuel 18:6
- 2 Samuel 20:21
- 1 Kings 4:8
- 1 Kings 12:25
- 2 Kings 5:22
- 2 Kings 14:13
- 1 Chronicles 6:66
- 1 Chronicles 6:67
- 1 Chronicles 7:20
- 1 Chronicles 7:22
- 1 Chronicles 9:3
- 1 Chronicles 12:30
- 1 Chronicles 27:10
- 1 Chronicles 27:14
- 1 Chronicles 27:20
- 2 Chronicles 13:4
- 2 Chronicles 15:8
- 2 Chronicles 15:9
- 2 Chronicles 17:2
- 2 Chronicles 19:4
- 2 Chronicles 25:7
- 2 Chronicles 25:10
- 2 Chronicles 25:23
- 2 Chronicles 28:7
- 2 Chronicles 28:12
- 2 Chronicles 30:1
- 2 Chronicles 30:10
- 2 Chronicles 30:18
- 2 Chronicles 31:1
- 2 Chronicles 34:6
- 2 Chronicles 34:9
- Nehemiah 8:16
- Nehemiah 12:39
- Psalms 60:7
- Psalms 78:9
- Psalms 78:67
- Psalms 80:2
- Psalms 108:8
- Isaiah 7:2
- Isaiah 7:5
- Isaiah 7:8
- Isaiah 7:9
- Isaiah 7:17
- Isaiah 9:9
- Isaiah 9:21
- Isaiah 11:13
- Isaiah 17:3
- Isaiah 28:1
- Isaiah 28:3
- Jeremiah 4:15
- Jeremiah 7:15
- Jeremiah 31:6
- Jeremiah 31:9
- Jeremiah 31:18
- Jeremiah 31:20
- Jeremiah 50:19
- Ezekiel 37:16
- Ezekiel 37:19
- Ezekiel 48:5
- Ezekiel 48:6
- Hosea 4:17
- Hosea 5:3
- Hosea 5:5
- Hosea 5:9
- Hosea 5:11
- Hosea 5:12
- Hosea 5:13
- Hosea 5:14
- Hosea 6:4
- Hosea 6:10
- Hosea 7:1
- Hosea 7:8
- Hosea 7:11
- Hosea 8:9
- Hosea 8:11
- Hosea 9:3
- Hosea 9:8
- Hosea 9:11
- Hosea 9:13
- Hosea 9:16
- Hosea 10:6
- Hosea 10:11
- Hosea 11:3
- Hosea 11:8
- Hosea 11:9
- Hosea 11:12
- Hosea 12:1
- Hosea 12:8
- Hosea 12:14
- Hosea 13:1
- Hosea 13:12
- Hosea 14:8
- Obadiah 1:19
- Zechariah 9:10
- Zechariah 9:13
- Zechariah 10:7