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H0669Gאֶפְרַ֫יִםeph.ra.yim
EphraimPart of speech: Proper Name of a Male Person
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173 occurrences in 157 verses
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And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sore distressed.
אֶפְרָ֑יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed to Zaphon; and they said unto Jephthah: 'Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire.'
אֶפְרַ֔יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said: 'Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.'
אֶפְרָ֑יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”אֶפְרַ֗יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”אֶפְרַ֖יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites; and it was so, that when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said: 'Let me go over,' the men of Gilead said unto him: 'Art thou an Ephraimite?' If he said: 'Nay';
לְאֶפְרָ֑יִם (אֶפְרָ֑יִם) 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
then said they unto him: 'Say now Shibboleth'; and he said 'Sibboleth'; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.
מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם (אֶפְרַ֔יִם) 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
אֶפְרַ֔יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
אֶפְרָ֖יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem in Judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
אֶפְרַ֛יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them: 'Go, search the land'; and they came to the hill-country of Ephrai
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And they passed thence unto the hill-country of Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
אֶפְרָ֑יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem in Judah.
אֶפְרַ֔יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even; now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
אֶפְרַ֔יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And he said unto him: 'We are passing from Beth-lehem in Judah unto the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from thence am I, and I went to Beth-lehem in Judah, and I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that taketh me into
אֶפְרַיִם֒ 'ef.ra.Yim “Ephraim”
NOW THERE was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
אֶפְרָ֑יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found them not; then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they were not; and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found
אֶפְרַ֛יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
Likewise all the men of Israel that had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab: 'Behold, his
אֶפְרַ֜יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.
אֶפְרַ֖יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And he said: 'All is well. My master hath sent me, saying: Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.'
אֶפְרַ֖יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
אֶפְרָֽיִם׃ 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And they gave unto them the city of refuge, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with the open land about it; Gezer also with the open land about it;
אֶפְרָ֑יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah--and Bered was his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
אֶפְרַ֖יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
אֶפְרַ֥יִם 'ef.Ra.yim “Ephraim”