Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H672
אֶפְרָת
Ephrathef-rawth'
Ephrathah
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼEphrâth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H672is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H672
Ephrath, another name for Bethlehem;
The King James renders it: once (Psalm 132:6) perhaps for Ephraim; also of an Israelitish woman; Ephrath, Ephratah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Ephrath is rendered "Ephrathah". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 35:16Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Genesis 35:16אֶפְרָ֑תָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's ten uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ephrath4
- Ephrathah4
- in Ephrathah2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶפְרָ֑תָה3
- אֶפְרָ֔ת2
- אֶפְרָ֔תָה2
- אֶפְרָ֗תָה1
- בְאֶפְרָ֑תָה1
- בְּאֶפְרָ֔תָה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpf
- proper noun (a name)3HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npf
Genesis
four uses
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
- אֶפְרָ֑תָהʾefratahproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrathah
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
- אֶפְרָ֔תָהʾefratahproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrathah
Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
- אֶפְרָ֑תָהʾefratahproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrathah
- אֶפְרָ֔תʾefratproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrath
Ruth
one use
“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
- בְּאֶפְרָ֔תָהbeefratahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Ephrathah
1 Chronicles
three uses
When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.
- אֶפְרָ֔תʾefratproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrath
These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah:
- אֶפְרָ֑תָהʾefratahproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrath
Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem.
- אֶפְרָ֔תָהʾefratahproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrath
Psalms
one use
We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
- בְאֶפְרָ֑תָהveefratahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Ephrathah
Micah
one use
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
- אֶפְרָ֗תָהʾefratahproper noun (a name)tagged: Ephrathah
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.