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Ephraim

1708 BC – · Tribe of Joseph

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being placed, along with his brother Manasseh, before their grandfather, Jacob, that he might bless them (48:10; comp. 27:1). The intention of Joseph was that the right hand of the aged patriarch should be placed on the head of the elder of the two; but Jacob set Ephraim the younger before his brother, “guiding his hands wittingly.” Before Joseph’s death, Ephraim’s family had reached the third generation (Gen. 50:23).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 160 verses

Genesis: 41:52, 46:20, 48:1, 48:5, 48:13, 48:14, 48:17, 48:20, 50:23
Numbers: 1:10, 1:32, 1:33, 2:18, 2:24, 7:48, 10:22, 13:8, 26:28, 26:35, 26:37, 34:24
Deuteronomy: 33:17, 34:2
Joshua: 14:4, 16:4, 16:5, 16:8, 16:9, 17:8, 17:9, 17:10, 17:17, 20:7, 21:5, 21:20, 21:21, 24:30, 24:33
Judges: 1:29, 2:9, 3:27, 4:5, 5:14, 7:24, 8:1, 8:2, 10:1, 10:9, 12:1, 12:4, 12:15, 17:1, 17:8, 18:2, 18:13, 19:1, 19:16, 19:18
1 Samuel: 1:1, 9:4, 14:22
2 Samuel: 2:9, 13:23, 18:6, 20:21
1 Kings: 4:8, 12:25
2 Kings: 5:22, 14:13
1 Chronicles: 6:66, 6:67, 7:20, 7:22, 9:3, 12:30, 27:10, 27:14, 27:20
2 Chronicles: 13:4, 15:8, 15:9, 17:2, 19:4, 25:7, 25:10, 25:23, 28:7, 28:12, 30:1, 30:10, 30:18, 31:1, 34:6, 34:9
Nehemiah: 8:16, 12:39
Psalms: 60:7, 78:9, 78:67, 80:2, 108:8
Isaiah: 7:2, 7:5, 7:8, 7:9, 7:17, 9:9, 9:21, 11:13, 17:3, 28:1, 28:3
Jeremiah: 4:15, 7:15, 31:6, 31:9, 31:18, 31:20, 50:19
Ezekiel: 37:16, 37:19, 48:5, 48:6
Hosea: 4:17, 5:3, 5:5, 5:9, 5:11, 5:12, 5:13, 5:14, 6:4, 6:10, 7:1, 7:8, 7:11, 8:9, 8:11, 9:3, 9:8, 9:11, 9:13, 9:16, 10:6, 10:11, 11:3, 11:8, 11:9, 11:12, 12:1, 12:8, 12:14, 13:1, 13:12, 14:8
Obadiah: 1:19
Zechariah: 9:10, 9:13, 10:7
John: 11:54

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.