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Lexicon :: Strong's G2187 - ephraim

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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

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Strong's Number G2187 matches the Greek Ἐφραίμ (ephraim),
which occurs 18 times in 17 verses in 'Jos' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:4 - The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:8 - The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7 - So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and 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 - And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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