אֶפְרַ֔יִם
𐤀𐤐𐤓𐤉𐤌
Eferayim
Ephraim
Ephrayim: a personal, tribal, and geographic name in the Hebrew Bible. Primarily, it designates (1) the younger son of Joseph and Asenath born in Egypt, (2) the people descending from him (the tribe of Ephraim), and (3) their assigned territory in the central hill country of Canaan. The term also comes to be used more broadly: in prophetic and later historical books, "Ephraim" at times serves as a synecdoche for the northern kingdom of Israel as a whole, due to the tribe's geographic dominance and political prominence within that polity. The semantic range therefore includes individual (personal), tribal, territorial, and at times national/division identifiers.
Deuteronomy 33:17 · Word #16
Lexicon H669
| Lemma | אֶפְרַיִם |
| Lemma (Paleo) | 𐤀𐤐𐤓𐤉𐤌 |
| Transliteration | Eferayim |
| Strong's | H669 |
| Definition | Ephrayim: a personal, tribal, and geographic name in the Hebrew Bible. Primarily, it designates (1) the younger son of Joseph and Asenath born in Egypt, (2) the people descending from him (the tribe of Ephraim), and (3) their assigned territory in the central hill country of Canaan. The term also comes to be used more broadly: in prophetic and later historical books, "Ephraim" at times serves as a synecdoche for the northern kingdom of Israel as a whole, due to the tribe's geographic dominance and political prominence within that polity. The semantic range therefore includes individual (personal), tribal, territorial, and at times national/division identifiers. |
Morphology HNp
All morphology codes
| Part of Speech | N — Noun — A person, place, thing, or idea |
| Subtype | p — Proper Name — Proper name |
Common Translation
| Phrase | Ephraim |
SIBI-P1 Translation H669-01
Double Fruitfulness
| Morphological Notes | Proper masculine noun; dual form ending -ַיִם functioning as a personal, tribal, and territorial name. |
| Rendering Rationale | The name derives from the root פרה meaning "to be fruitful" and appears in a dual form (־ַיִם), suggesting intensified or doubled fruitfulness. Rendering it as "Double Fruitfulness" preserves both the root meaning and the dual morphology without contextual reduction to a specific referent. |
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SILEX v2
SIBI-P2 (Context-Aware)
Eferayim
| Same as P1 | No — adjusted for context |
| Rationale | Proper noun transliterated from Hebrew. P1 meaning: Double Fruitfulness |
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