Ephraim

Where the Bible names him

1. Genesis 41:52

   And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

2. Genesis 46:20

   Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

3. Genesis 48:1

   Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

4. Genesis 48:5

   And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

5. Genesis 48:13

   And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand—and brought them close to him.

6. Genesis 48:14

   But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

7. Genesis 48:17

   When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

8. Genesis 48:20

   So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

9. Genesis 50:23

   He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

10. Numbers 1:10

    from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

11. Numbers 1:32

    From the sons of Joseph: From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

12. Numbers 1:33

    those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

13. Numbers 2:18

    On the west side, the divisions of Ephraim are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud,

14. Numbers 2:24

    The total number of men in the divisions of the camp of Ephraim is 108,100; they shall set out third.

15. Numbers 7:48

    On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, the leader of the Ephraimites, drew near.

16. Numbers 10:22

    Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command.

17. Numbers 13:8

    from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

18. Numbers 26:28

    The descendants of Joseph included the clans of Manasseh and Ephraim.

19. Numbers 26:35

    These were the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah, the Becherite clan from Becher, and the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

20. Numbers 26:37

    These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.

21. Numbers 34:24

    Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;

22. Deuteronomy 33:17

    His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

23. Deuteronomy 34:2

    all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,

24. Joshua 14:4

    The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

25. Joshua 16:4

    So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.

26. Joshua 16:5

    This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon

27. Joshua 16:8

    From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Ephraim,

28. Joshua 16:9

    along with all the cities and villages set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of Manasseh.

29. Joshua 16:10

    But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

30. Joshua 17:8

    The region of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim.

31. Joshua 17:9

    From there the border continued southward to the Brook of Kanah. There were cities belonging to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh, but the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook and ended at the Sea.

32. Joshua 17:10

    Ephraim’s territory was to the south, and Manasseh’s was to the north, having the Sea as its border and adjoining Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

33. Joshua 17:15

    Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

34. Joshua 17:17

    So Joshua said to the house of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—“You have many people and great strength. You shall not have just one allotment,

35. Joshua 19:50

    as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it.

36. Joshua 20:7

    So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

37. Joshua 21:5

    The remaining descendants of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

38. Joshua 21:20

    The remaining Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted these cities: From the tribe of Ephraim

39. Joshua 21:21

    they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

40. Joshua 24:30

    And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.