efrayim · Ephraim

What it means

efrayim (אֶפְרַיִם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ephraim”.

The second son of Joseph; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later a name of the northern kingdom. The name sounds like "be fruitful".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Numbers×13
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×18
• Judges×27
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×9
• 2 Chronicles×16
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×14
• Jeremiah×7
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×37
• Obadiah×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 41:52

  The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For Elohim has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

• Genesis 46:20

  To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 48:1

  After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Look, your father is ill.” So he took his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Genesis 48:5

  And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 48:13

  Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them near to him.

• Genesis 48:14

  But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was displeasing in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May Elohim make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 50:23

  Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; also the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were born on Joseph’s knees.

• Numbers 1:10

  from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

• Numbers 1:32

  Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:33

  those of them counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 2:18

  The banner of the camp of Ephraim by their armies shall be on the west side; and the chief of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud,

• Numbers 2:24

  All those counted of the camp of Ephraim are one hundred eight thousand one hundred, by their armies. They shall set out third.

• Numbers 7:48

  On the seventh day, the chief of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud:

• Numbers 10:22

  And the banner of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set out by their armies, and over its army was Elishama son of Ammihud.

• Numbers 13:8

  of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

• Numbers 26:28

  The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Numbers 26:35

  These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

• Numbers 26:37

  These are the families of the sons of Ephraim, according to those of them counted: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

• Numbers 34:24

  of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, a chief, Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

• Deuteronomy 33:17

  The firstborn of his bull, splendor is his, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he will gore the peoples, all together, to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

• Deuteronomy 34:2

  and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

• Joshua 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, and their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.

• Joshua 16:4

  So the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

• Joshua 16:5

  And the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families was this: the border of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,

• Joshua 16:8

  From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah, and its ends were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families,

• Joshua 16:9

  together with the cities that were set apart for the sons of Ephraim within the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.

• Joshua 16:10

  But they did not dispossess the Canaanite who lived in Gezer; so the Canaanite has lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and became forced laborers.

• Joshua 17:8

  The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the sons of Ephraim.

• Joshua 17:9

  And the border went down to the Brook of Kanah, south of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. And the border of Manasseh was on the north of the brook, and its ends were at the sea.

• Joshua 17:10

  The south was Ephraim’s and the north Manasseh’s, and the sea was its border; and they reached Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

• Joshua 17:15

  And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear ground for yourself there in the land of the Perizzite and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Joshua 17:17

  And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and you have great strength; you shall not have only one lot,

• Joshua 19:50

  According to the command of YHWH they gave him the city that he asked for, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city and lived in it.

• Joshua 20:7

  So they consecrated Kedesh in 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.

• Joshua 21:5

  And the rest of the sons of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 21:20

  And as for the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the sons of Kohath, the cities of their lot were from the tribe of Ephraim.

• Joshua 21:21

  And they gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasturelands,

• Joshua 24:30

  And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

And 140 more times.