King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H673
Transliteration: Ephrathi
Phonetic Spelling: (ef-rawth-ee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Meaning: Ephraimite -- a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Word Summary
Ephrathi: a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Original Word: אֶפְרָתִיTransliteration: Ephrathi
Phonetic Spelling: (ef-rawth-ee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Meaning: Ephraimite -- a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Strong's Concordance
Ephraimite, Ephrathite Patrial form 'Ephraath; an Ephrathite or an Ephraimite -- Ephraimite, Ephrathite.
see HEBREW 'Ephraath
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H673. Ephrathi
אֶפְרָתִי adjective, of a people Ephrathite.
1 Ephraimite, compare אֶפְרָתָה 1 Judges 12:5; 1 Samuel 1:1 (of ancestor of Elkanah) 1 Kings 11:26 (of Jeroboam)
2 from ׳א 2; ׳א לֶחֶם מִבֵּית 1 Samuel 17:12 (of Jesse); plural לֶחֶם מִבֵּית אֶפְרָתִים Ruth 1:2.
אפת (meaning dubious √ whence Arabic calamity, & also wonder, portent; according to Thes Arabic √ = suffer evil). **but Thes612. Add. 72 deletes אפת, and derives מוֺפֵת from √ פו׳׳, so BaNB § 172 c; see also, on as late by-form of , DBMacdonaldJBL xiv (1895). 58 ff..