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Reference: EPHRATH

American

Or EPHRATAH

1. The second wife of Caleb, and mother of Hur, 1Ch 2:19; supposed by some to have given her name to the city of Ephrath or Beth-lehem, 1Ch 2:50-51; 4:4. Compare Ge 35:16,19. Elimelech was an Ephrathite of Bethlehem, Ru 1:2; 4:11; so also was David, 1Sa 17:12.

2. A name of Ephraim and Ephreimites, 1Sa 1:1; 1Ki 11:26; Ps 132:6.

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Fausets

(See EPHRATAH.)

Watsons

EPHRATH, Caleb's second wife, who was the mother of Hur, 1Ch 2:19. From her, it is believed that the city of Ephratah, otherwise called Bethlehem, where our Lord was born, had its name; and this city is more than once known in Scripture by the name of Ephrath, Ge 35:16.

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