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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 sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - Now this was the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance eastward 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 border continued westward to the [fn]brook of Kanah, and [fn]it ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:9 - together with the cities which were set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - But they did not [fn]drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and they became forced laborers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - The border went down to the [fn]brook of Kanah, southward of the [fn]brook (these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh), and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the [fn]brook and [fn]it ended at the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - The south side belonged to Ephraim and the north side to Manasseh, and the sea was [fn]their border; and they reached to Asher on the north and to Issachar on the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go [fn]up to the forest and [fn]clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of 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 sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the valley land have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - In accordance with the [fn]command of the LORD they gave him the city for which he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. So he built the city and [fn]settled in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:7 - So they [fn]set apart Kedesh in [fn]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 - The rest of the sons of Kohath [fn]received ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount 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 [fn]at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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