Strong's #672: 'Ephraath (pronounced ef-rawth')

or mEphrathah {ef-raw'-thaw}; from 6509; fruitfulness; Ephrath, another name for Bethlehem; once (Psa. 132:6) perhaps for Ephraim; also of an Israelitish woman:--Ephrath, Ephratah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ephrâth / 'ephrâthâh

Ephrath or Ephratah = "ash-heap: place of fruitfulness"

1) a place near Bethel where Rachel died and was buried (noun proper locative)

2) another name for Bethlehem (noun proper locative)

3) wife of Caleb (noun proper feminine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H6509

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Genesis 35:16: "and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed,"
Genesis 35:19: "died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which"
Genesis 48:7: "when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way"
Genesis 48:7: "unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem."
Ruth 4:11: "of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:"
1 Chronicles 2:19: "Caleb took unto him Ephrath, him Hur."
1 Chronicles 2:50: "the son of Hur, of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,"
1 Chronicles 4:4: "are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem."
Psalms 132:6: "Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood."
Micah 5:2: "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands yet out of"