First name Ephraim in the world's Bibles

In the bible, Ephraim is the name of the second son of Joseph (GEN 41:52). Meaning of the name: fruitful; increasing. Related names are: Manasseh, Israel, Judah . The translations of Ephraim in 79 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the below, from Efraín in Spanish to Efraim in Swahili!

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And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. (GEN 41:52)

And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. (GEN 46:20)

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. (GEN 48:1)

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. (GEN 48:5)

And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. (GEN 48:13)

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. (GEN 48:14)

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. (GEN 48:17)

And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. (GEN 48:20)

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. (GEN 50:23)

Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. (NUM 1:10)

Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; (NUM 1:32)

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred. (NUM 1:33)

On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. (NUM 2:18)

All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank. (NUM 2:24)

On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered: (NUM 7:48)

And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. (NUM 10:22)

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. (NUM 13:8)

The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim. (NUM 26:28)

These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. (NUM 26:35)

These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families. (NUM 26:37)

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. (NUM 34:24)

His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. (DEU 33:17)

And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, (DEU 34:2)

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. (JOS 14:4)

So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. (JOS 16:4)

And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper; (JOS 16:5)

The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. (JOS 16:8)

First name Ephraim in the world's Bibles

Popularity of the name Ephraim in its translations around the world

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