אֶפְרַ֫יִם

eph.ra.yim

Hebrew H0669 Personal name, masculine 180 occurrences in 164 verses
אֶפְרַ֫יִם Ephraim

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.41.52;

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

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Concordance 164 verses

  1. Judges 10:9 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.

  2. Judges 12:1 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”

  3. Judges 12:4 אֶפְרָ֑יִםאֶפְרַ֗יִםאֶפְרַ֙יִם֙אֶפְרַ֖יִם

    Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

  4. Judges 12:5 לְאֶפְרָ֑יִםאֶפְרַ֙יִם֙

    The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

  5. Judges 12:6 מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם

    they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

  6. Judges 12:15 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

  7. Judges 17:1 אֶפְרָ֖יִם

    Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

  8. Judges 17:8 אֶפְרַ֛יִם

    This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

  9. Judges 18:2 אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙

    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

  10. Judges 18:13 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    And from there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah’s house.

  11. Judges 19:1 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

  12. Judges 19:16 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.

  13. Judges 19:18 אֶפְרַיִם֒

    The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,

  14. 1 Samuel 1:1 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

  15. 1 Samuel 9:4 אֶפְרַ֛יִם

    So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but did not find the donkeys. He and the servant went through the region of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they went through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

  16. 1 Samuel 14:22 אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙

    When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.

  17. 2 Samuel 2:9 אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙

    and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.

  18. 2 Samuel 13:23 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

  19. 2 Samuel 18:6 אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

    So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.

  20. 2 Samuel 20:21 אֶפְרַ֜יִם

    That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

  21. 1 Kings 4:8 אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ס

    and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

  22. 1 Kings 12:25 אֶפְרַ֖יִם

    Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

  23. 2 Kings 5:22 אֶפְרַ֖יִם

    “Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”

  24. 2 Kings 14:13 אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙

    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

  25. 1 Chronicles 6:66 אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

    And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:

  26. 1 Chronicles 6:67 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,

  27. 1 Chronicles 7:20 אֶפְרַ֖יִם

    The descendants of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

  28. 1 Chronicles 7:22 אֶפְרַ֥יִם

    Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

  29. 1 Chronicles 9:3 אֶפְרַ֖יִם

    These were some of the descendants of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh who lived in Jerusalem:

  30. 1 Chronicles 12:30 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    From Ephraim: 20,800 mighty men of valor, famous among their own clans.

  31. 1 Chronicles 27:10 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

  32. 1 Chronicles 27:14 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

  33. 1 Chronicles 27:20 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    over the Ephraimites was Hoshea son of Azaziah; over one of the half-tribes of Manasseh was Joel son of Pedaiah;

  34. 2 Chronicles 13:4 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

  35. 2 Chronicles 15:8 אֶפְרָ֑יִם

    When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

  36. 2 Chronicles 15:9 מֵאֶפְרַ֥יִם

    And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, along with those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for great numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

  37. 2 Chronicles 17:2 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

  38. 2 Chronicles 19:4 אֶפְרַ֔יִם

    Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

  39. 2 Chronicles 25:7 אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

    But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.

  40. 2 Chronicles 25:10 מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם

    So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. And they were furious with Judah and returned home in great anger.

  41. 2 Chronicles 25:23 אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙

    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

  42. 2 Chronicles 28:7 אֶפְרַ֗יִם

    Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the governor of the palace, and Elkanah the second to the king.

  43. 2 Chronicles 28:12 אֶפְרַ֗יִם

    Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites —Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.

  44. 2 Chronicles 30:1 אֶפְרַ֣יִם

    Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

  45. 2 Chronicles 30:10 אֶפְרַ֥יִם

    And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

  46. 2 Chronicles 30:18 מֵֽאֶפְרַ֨יִם

    A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone

  47. 2 Chronicles 31:1 וּבְאֶפְרַ֥יִם

    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

  48. 2 Chronicles 34:6 וְאֶפְרַ֛יִם

    Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.

  49. 2 Chronicles 34:9 וְאֶפְרַ֗יִם

    So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.

  50. Nehemiah 8:16 אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

    And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.

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