Word

אֶפְרָת

ʼEphrâth · H672 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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Person

Ephratahfirst named in 1 Chronicles 2:195 verses

This name belongs to 3 places

Ephrathfirst named in Genesis 35:163 verses
Ephrathahfirst named in Ruth 4:112 verses
Bethlehem Ephrathahfirst named in Micah 5:21 verse

Meanings

Ephrathah or Ephrath

A town also known as Bethlehem, in the territory of Judah, where Jacob buried his wife Rachel

Examples
Genesis 35:16 Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.
Genesis 35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Genesis 48:7 “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
Ephrath or Ephrathah

A woman, wife of Caleb

Examples
1 Chronicles 2:19 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.
1 Chronicles 2:50 These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, were Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,
1 Chronicles 4:4 Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָבfather 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בְּכוֹרfirstborn 2
דֶּרֶךְway, road 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

בֵּית לֶחֶם Bêyth Lechem · H1035 · Bethlehem: Ephrath/Ephratah is used as an alternate name for Bethlehem in Genesis 35:19, 48:7, Ruth 4:11, and Micah 5:2, referring to the same geographic location

Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of Locations003001010: אֶפְרָת names Ephrath, identified in the text with Bethlehem, near where Rachel died in childbirth.
Names of People003001007: The same form also names an Israelite woman, Ephrath, in a separate genealogical context.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H672. Ephrath or Ephrathah אֶפְרָ֫תָה proper name (see Sta§ 308 d. 1; 342 d. 2; Morgenl.…

H672. Ephrath
or Ephrathah אֶפְרָ֫תָה proper name (see Sta§ 308 d. 1; 342 d. 2; Morgenl. Forsch. 215) — might in several cases, e.g. Gen 35:16, be אֶפְרָת + ה locative, but see Rth 4:11; —
1. proper name, of a location place near Bethel, where Rachel died & was buried Gen 35:16, Gen 35:19; Gen 48:7 (אֶפְרָת only Gen 48:7 where ה perhaps dropped on accusative of ה following (Ol); in last two passages לחם בית הוא is a gloss, see Di; compare 1Sa 10:2).
2 id., a name of Bethlehem Mic 5:1; Rth 4:11; compare perhaps אֶפְרָתָ֑ה כָּלֵב 1Ch 2:24 (ᵐ5 ἦλθεν Ξαλὲβ εἰς Ἐφράθα).
3 id. Psa 132:6, perhaps applied to district where Kirjath Jearim lay, on the border of Judah & Benjamin, compare De Che.
4. proper name, feminine אֶפְרָת name given to wife of Caleb 1Ch 2:19 = אֶפְרָתָ֑ח 1Ch 2:50; 1Ch 4:4.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People5 occurrences Names of Locations10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0