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# אֶפְרָת

Biblical Hebrew

**Ephrathite** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ephrathite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. אפרתה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ephrath (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.19/#tree)

וַתָּ֖מָת עֲזוּבָ֑ה וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֤וֹ כָלֵב֙ אֶת־אֶפְרָ֔ת וַתֵּ֥לֶד ל֖וֹ אֶת־חֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* and she.died Azubah and he.took for himself Caleb (et) Ephrath and she.bore to him (et) Hur

*JPS 1917:* And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5ea/): 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).