Person
Ephraim
Mentioned in 160 verses across 20 books, first in Psalms 60:7. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
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In the Bible
All 5 verses in Psalms, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Psalms
- Psalms 60:7
Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.
- Psalms 78:9
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
- Psalms 78:67
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
- Psalms 80:2
before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.
- Psalms 108:8
Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
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Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being placed, along with his brother Manasseh, before their grandfather, Jacob, that he might bless them (48:10; comp. 27:1). The intention of Joseph was that the right hand of the aged patriarch should be placed on the head of the elder of the two; but Jacob set Ephraim the younger before his brother, “guiding his hands wittingly.” Before Joseph’s death, Ephraim’s family had reached the third generation (Gen. 50:23).