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The New King James Version and World English Bible call Ephraim a "city", whereas the New International Version and the New Living Translation call it a "village". Ephraim was located in the wild, uncultivated hill-country thirteen miles to the northeast of Jerusalem , "perched on a conspicuous eminence and with an extensive view" [ 1 ] between ...
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Mount Ephraim (Hebrew: הר אפרים), or alternatively Mount of Ephraim, was the historical name for the central mountainous district of Israel once occupied by the Tribe of Ephraim (Joshua 17:15; 19:50; 20:7), extending from Bethel to the plain of Jezreel.
Ephraim (/ ˈ iː f r i ə m /; [1] Hebrew: אֶפְרַיִם , romanized: ʾEp̄rayīm, in pausa: אֶפְרָיִם ʾEp̄rāyīm) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath, as well as the adopted son of his biological grandfather Jacob, making him the progenitor of the Tribe of Ephraim.
Ophrah (Hebrew: עֹפְרָה), (/ ˈ ɔː f r ə / or / ˈ ɒ f r ə /) is a name in the Hebrew Bible meaning "a fawn" given to: . A city of Benjamin (Joshua 18:23), probably identical with Ephron (2 Chron 13:19) and Ephraim (), the modern Palestinian town of Taybeh.
According to the biblical book bearing his name, Joshua died at the age of 110 and his burial site was in a location of his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of the Tribe of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash (Joshua 24:30).
Upper Bethoron is first mentioned in the Book of Joshua as a city on the border between the Israelite tribes of Benjamin and Ephraim (Joshua 16:5).The borderline passed alongside the two Bethorons (Joshua 16:5; 21:22 [8]) who belonged to the latter Israelite tribe and therefore, later on, to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while the tribe of Benjamin belonged to the Kingdom of Judah.
Ascent of Ephraim) [2] is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a secular settlement and a local council, located along the eastern slopes of the Samarian mountains in the Jordan Valley. [3] It was founded in 1978 and named after the Biblical tribe of Ephraim. [3] The settlement's municipal status was upgraded to local council in ...