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# אֶפְרָתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H673

**Ephrathite** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ephrathite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/673/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶפְרָתִי: adj.gent. Ephrathite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/673/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Ephrathite. Ephraimite, cf. אֶפְרָתָה 1. Ju 12:5 1 S 1:1 (of ancestor of Elkanah) 1 K 11:26 (of Jerob.) from א׳ 2; א׳ מִבֵּית לֶחֶם 1 S 17:12 (of Jesse); pl. אֶפְרָתִים מִבֵּית לֶחֶם Ru 1:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an Ephrathite (3); Ephrathite? (1); Ephrathites (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.1/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֜ד מִן־הָרָמָתַ֛יִם צוֹפִ֖ים מֵהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם וּשְׁמ֡וֹ אֶ֠לְקָנָה בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֧ם בֶּן־אֱלִיה֛וּא בֶּן־תֹּ֥חוּ בֶן־צ֖וּף אֶפְרָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.was a.man one from (the) Ramathaim Zophim from the.hill.country of.Ephraim and name his \[was\].Elkanah the.son of.Jeroham the.son of.Elihu the.son of.Tohu the.son of.Zuph an.Ephrathite

*JPS 1917:* 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.

[1 Kings 11:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.26/#tree)

וְיָרָבְעָם֩ בֶּן־נְבָ֨ט אֶפְרָתִ֜י מִן־הַצְּרֵדָ֗ה וְשֵׁ֤ם אִמּוֹ֙ צְרוּעָה֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה אַלְמָנָ֔ה עֶ֖בֶד לִשְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וַיָּ֥רֶם יָ֖ד בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and Jeroboam the.son of.Nebat an.Ephrathite from (the) Zeredah and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Zeruah a.woman a.widow a.servant of Solomon and he.raised a.hand on the king

*JPS 1917:* And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/673.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/673/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).