Strong's #669: 'Ephrayim (pronounced ef-rah'-yim)
dual of masculine form of 672; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory:--Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'ephrayim
Ephraim = "double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful"
1) second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh
2) the tribe, Ephraim
3) the mountain country of Ephraim
4) sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah)
5) a city near Baal-hazor
6) a chief gate of Jerusalem
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: dual of H672
Usage:
This word is used 180 times:
Judges 7:24: "messengers mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites,"
Judges 8:1: "And the men of Ephraim said him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst"
Judges 8:2: "now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?"
Judges 10:1: "dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim."
Judges 10:9: "against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed."
Judges 12:1: "And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore"
Judges 12:4: "of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote"
Judges 12:4: "of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites"
Judges 12:4: "Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites."
Judges 12:4: "are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites."
Judges 12:5: "of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped"
Judges 12:5: "before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men"
Judges 12:6: "and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand."
Judges 12:15: "and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites."
Judges 17:1: "And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah."
Judges 17:8: "to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to"
Judges 18:2: "unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim,"
Judges 18:13: "And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house"
Judges 19:1: "sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah."
Judges 19:16: "at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah:"
Judges 19:18: "from Bethlehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence"
1 Samuel 1:1: "Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son"
1 Samuel 9:4: "And he passed through mount Ephraim, the land of Shalisha, but they found them not:"
1 Samuel 14:22: "of Israel in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled,"
2 Samuel 2:9: "and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all"
2 Samuel 13:23: "sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all"
2 Samuel 18:6: "and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;"
2 Samuel 20:21: "a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri"
1 Kings 4:8: "are their names: The son of Hur, Ephraim:"
1 Kings 12:25: "in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence,"
2 Kings 5:22: "even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men"
2 Kings 14:13: "the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four"
1 Chronicles 6:66: "cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim."
1 Chronicles 6:67: "Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,"
1 Chronicles 7:20: "And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah"
1 Chronicles 7:22: " And Ephraim their father mourned days, and his brethren came to comfort"
1 Chronicles 9:3: "of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;"
1 Chronicles 12:30: "And of the children of Ephraim thousand and eight hundred, mighty men"
1 Chronicles 27:10: "the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four"
1 Chronicles 27:14: "month the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course"
1 Chronicles 27:20: "Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh,"
2 Chronicles 13:4: "Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam,"
2 Chronicles 15:8: "the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed"
2 Chronicles 15:9: "and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon:"
2 Chronicles 17:2: "in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken."
2 Chronicles 19:4: "from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD"
2 Chronicles 25:7: "Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim."
2 Chronicles 25:10: "was come to him out of Ephraim, him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger"
2 Chronicles 25:23: "the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate,"
2 Chronicles 28:7: "And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, Maaseiah the king's son,"
