Word Study · Strong's H673 · Hebrew
אֶפְרָתִי
Ephrathi
ef-rawth-ee'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼEphrâthîy
“an Ephrathite or an Ephraimite”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
an Ephrathite or an Ephraimite
Rendered in the KJV as
Ephraimite, Ephrathite.
- 5occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- אֶפְרָתִ֜י2
- אֶפְרָתִֽי׃1
- אֶפְרָתִ֔ים1
- הַֽאֶפְרָתִ֥י1
How it is rendered · 3
- an Ephrathite3
- ¿ an Ephrathite1
- Ephrathites1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- gentilic noun (a people)3
- gentilic noun (a people)1
- question particle + gentilic noun (a people)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNgmsa · 3
- HNgmpa · 1
- HTi/Ngmsa · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
1 Samuel2 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 1:1אֶפְרָתִֽי׃ʾefratigentilic noun (a people)Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.here: an Ephrathite
- 1 Samuel 17:12אֶפְרָתִ֜יʾefratigentilic noun (a people)Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.here: an Ephrathite