Lexicon Ephraim: Ephraim, a city near Jer. Original Word: Ἐφραΐμ, ὁPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Ephraim Phonetic Spelling: (ef-rah-im') Short Definition: Ephraim Definition: Ephraim, a city. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of Hebrew origin DefinitionEphraim, a city near Jer. NASB TranslationEphraim (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2187: ΑφραιμΑφραιμ or (so R Tr) Αφραιμ (cf. Iota, at the end) ( א L H Ἐφρεμ, Vulg.Ephrem, Efrem), Ephraim, proper name of a city situated, according to Eusebius, eight (but edition Larsow and Parthey, p. 196, 18, twenty), according to Jerome twenty miles from Jerusalem; according to Josephus, b. j. 4, 9, 9 not far from Bethel; conjectured by Robinson (Palest. i. 444f (cf. Bib. Sacr. for May 1845, p. 398f)), Ewald, et al., dissenting, to be the same as the village now called et-Taiyibeh, a short day's journey N. E. of Jerusalem: John 11:54. Cf. Winers RWB under the word; Keim, iii., p. 7f (English translation, 5:9).
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