Lexical 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.. |
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