This name belongs to 6 different people and places in the Bible:
- Ephraim: Second son of Joseph, and a tribe of Israel
- Mount Ebal: A mountain in Canaan, site of curses and blessings ceremony
- Ephraim: City near the Judean wilderness; Jesus withdrew there
- Ephraim Gate: Gate in Jerusalem's wall, broken down by King Jehoash
- Ephraim Gate: Gate in Jerusalem's wall, rebuilt during Nehemiah's time
- Forest Ephraim: Location of the battle between David's forces and Absalom's army
Definition
dual of masculine form of H672; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
Traditional renderings: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Traditional renderings: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Glossary entries
Ephraim (Person) Mount Ebal Ephraim, Mount Ephraim (Place) Ephrain Salmon (Place)
Where it occurs
Occurrences
180 total
- Judges 7:24אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · of EphraimGideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.
- Judges 8:1אֶפְרַ֗יִם · of EphraimThen the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.
- Judges 8:2אֶפְרַ֖יִם · of EphraimBut Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
- Judges 10:1אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ · of EphraimAfter the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Judges 10:9אֶפְרָ֑יִם · of EphraimThe Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.
- Judges 12:1אֶפְרַ֔יִם · of EphraimThen 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!”
- Judges 12:4 (4×)אֶפְרָ֑יִם · Ephraim; אֶפְרַ֗יִם · the Ephraimites; אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · in Ephraim; אֶפְרַ֖יִם · of EphraimJephthah 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.”
- Judges 12:5 (2×)לְאֶפְרָ֑יִם · leading to Ephraim; אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · from EphraimThe 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,”
- Judges 12:6מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם · Ephraimites…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.
- Judges 12:15אֶפְרַ֔יִם · EphraimThen Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
- Judges 17:1אֶפְרָ֖יִם · of EphraimNow a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
- Judges 17:8אֶפְרַ֛יִם · of EphraimThis 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.
- Judges 18:2אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · of EphraimSo 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.
- Judges 18:13אֶפְרָ֑יִם · of EphraimAnd from there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah’s house.
- Judges 19:1אֶפְרַ֔יִם · of EphraimNow 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.
- Judges 19:16אֶפְרַ֔יִם · of EphraimThat 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.
- Judges 19:18אֶפְרַיִם֒ · of EphraimThe 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,
- 1 Samuel 1:1אֶפְרָ֑יִם · of EphraimNow 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.
- 1 Samuel 9:4אֶפְרַ֛יִם · of EphraimSo Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but they 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.
- 1 Samuel 14:22אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · of EphraimWhen all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined the battle in close pursuit.
- 2 Samuel 2:9אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · Ephraim…and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
- 2 Samuel 13:23אֶפְרָ֑יִם · EphraimTwo years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
- 2 Samuel 18:6אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ · of EphraimSo David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
- 2 Samuel 20:21אֶפְרַ֜יִם · of EphraimThat 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.”
- 1 Kings 4:8אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ס · of Ephraim…and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
- 1 Kings 12:25אֶפְרַ֖יִם · of EphraimThen Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
- 2 Kings 5:22אֶפְרַ֖יִם · of Ephraim“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
- 2 Kings 14:13אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · from the EphraimThere 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.
- 1 Chronicles 6:66אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ · of EphraimAnd some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
- 1 Chronicles 6:67אֶפְרָ֑יִם · of EphraimThey were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
- 1 Chronicles 7:20אֶפְרַ֖יִם · of EphraimThe descendants of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
- 1 Chronicles 7:22אֶפְרַ֥יִם · EphraimTheir father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
- 1 Chronicles 9:3אֶפְרַ֖יִם · EphraimSome of the descendants of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:
- 1 Chronicles 12:30אֶפְרַ֔יִםFrom Ephraim: 20,800 mighty men of valor, famous among their own clans.
- 1 Chronicles 27:10אֶפְרָ֑יִם · an EphraimiteThe seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
- 1 Chronicles 27:14אֶפְרָ֑יִם · an EphraimiteThe eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
- 1 Chronicles 27:20אֶפְרַ֔יִם…over the Ephraimites was Hoshea son of Azaziah; over one of the half-tribes of Manasseh was Joel son of Pedaiah;
- 2 Chronicles 13:4אֶפְרָ֑יִם · of EphraimThen Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
- 2 Chronicles 15:8אֶפְרָ֑יִם · of EphraimWhen 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.
- 2 Chronicles 15:9מֵאֶפְרַ֥יִם · along with those from the tribes of EphraimAnd 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.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2אֶפְרַ֔יִם · of EphraimHe 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.
- 2 Chronicles 19:4אֶפְרַ֔יִם · of EphraimJehoshaphat 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.
- 2 Chronicles 25:7אֶפְרָֽיִם׃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.
- 2 Chronicles 25:10מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם · from EphraimSo 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.
- 2 Chronicles 25:23אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ · from the EphraimThere 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.
- 2 Chronicles 28:7אֶפְרַ֗יִם · of EphraimZichri, 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.