Lexicon Ephrathi: a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath Original Word: אֶפְרָתִיPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: Ephrathi Phonetic Spelling: (ef-rawth-ee') Short Definition: Ephraimite NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as apherDefinitiona desc. of Ephraim, also an inhab. of Ephrath NASB TranslationEphraimite (3), Ephrathite (1), Ephrathites (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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; מִבֵּית לֶחֶם ׳א 1 Samuel 17:12 (of Jesse); plural אֶפְרָתִים מִבֵּית לֶחֶם 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..
Strong's Ephraimite, Ephrathite Patrial form 'Ephraath; an Ephrathite or an Ephraimite -- Ephraimite, Ephrathite. see HEBREW 'Ephraath |
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