Brown-Driver-Briggs אֶפְרָתִי adjective, of a people Ephrathite. 1 Ephraimite, compare אֶפְרָתָה 1 Judges 12:5; 1 Samuel 1:1 (of ancestor of Elkanah) 1 Kings 11:26 (of Jeroboam) 2 from ׳א 2; מִבֵּית לֶחֶם ׳א 1 Samuel 17:12 (of Jesse); plural אֶפְרָתִים מִבֵּית לֶחֶם Ruth 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.. Forms and Transliterations אֶפְרָתִ֔ים אֶפְרָתִ֜י אֶפְרָתִֽי׃ אפרתי אפרתי׃ אפרתים הַֽאֶפְרָתִ֥י האפרתי ’ep̄·rā·ṯî ’ep̄·rā·ṯîm ’ep̄rāṯî ’ep̄rāṯîm efraTi efraTim ha’ep̄rāṯî ha·’ep̄·rā·ṯî haefraTiLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |