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Strong's #673: 'Ephrathiy (pronounced ef-rawth-ee')

patrial form 672; an Ephrathite or an Ephraimite:--Ephraimite, Ephrathite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ephrâthı̂y

Ephrathite = "ashiness: fruitfulness"

1) an inhabitant or descendant of Ephraim

2) an inhabitant of Bethlehem

Part of Speech: adjective proper

Relation: patrial form H672



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Judges 12:5: "of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;"
Ruth 1:2: "sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came"
1 Samuel 1:1: "the son of Tohu, the son an Ephrathite."
1 Samuel 17:12: "Now David was the son of that Ephrathite Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name"
1 Kings 11:26: "And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant,"









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