Ephrath
אֶפְרָ֫תָהStrong’s H1035ephratah (eph-ra-tah)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ephratah is the Hebrew word usually translated “-lehem”, “beth-” and “from beth-”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.”
Meaning
- Ephrath or Ephratah = "ash-heap: place of fruitfulness"
- § Beth-lehem = "house of bread (food)"
How it's translated
- -lehem 41
- beth- 25
- from beth- 11
- in beth- 2
- and beth- 1
- at beth- 1
- o beth- 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 8
- 1 Chronicles 7
- Ruth 6
- 1 Samuel 5
- 2 Samuel 5
- Genesis 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 48:7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
- Joshua 19:15And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
- Judges 12:8And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
- Judges 12:10Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
- Judges 17:7And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
- Judges 17:8And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
All 39 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֶפְרָ֫תָה ephratah · Ephrath
Ephrath or Ephratah = "ash-heap: place of fruitfulness" Another name of bet le.chem (בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם "Bethlehem" H1035G)
בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם bet lechem · Bethlehem
§ Beth-lehem = "house of bread (food)" a place in Zebulun
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.