STRONGS NUMBER H673


Word Summary
Ephrathi: a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Original Word: אֶפְרָתִי
Transliteration: Ephrathi
Phonetic Spelling: (ef-rawth-ee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Meaning: Ephraimite -- a descendant of Ephraim, also an inhabitant of Ephrath
Strong's Concordance
Ephraimite, Ephrathite

Patrial form 'Ephraath; an Ephrathite or an Ephraimite -- Ephraimite, Ephrathite.

see HEBREW 'Ephraath

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H673. Ephrathi

אֶפְרָתִיadjective, of a people Ephrathite.

1 Ephraimite, compare אֶפְרָתָה1 Judges 12:5; 1 Samuel 1:1 (of ancestor of Elkanah) 1 Kings 11:26 (of Jeroboam)

2 from ׳א2; ׳א לֶחֶם מִבֵּית1 Samuel 17:12 (of Jesse); plural לֶחֶם מִבֵּית אֶפְרָתִיםRuth 1:2.

אפת‎ (meaning dubious √ whence Arabic calamity, & also wonder, portent; according to Thes Arabic √ = suffer evil). **but Thes612. Add. 72 deletes אפת‎, and derives מוֺפֵת‎ from √ פו׳׳‎, so BaNB § 172 c; see also, on as late by-form of , DBMacdonaldJBL xiv (1895). 58 ff..