Who was ephraim of the bible?

Answer 1

Genesis:41:50-52:
50: And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
51: And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52: And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Answer 2

Ephraim is first mentioned in Genesis 41.

Genesis 41:52 The second son [of Joseph] he named Ephraimand said, "It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."

Answer 3

In Biblical times people were named either by the tribe they belonged to (tribename-ites - e.g. Levites were descended from Levi, Gadites were descended from Gad ) or by the area they were from (placename-ites - e.g. Sodomites lived in Sodom, Temanites were from Temani)

The Ephrathites were from Ephrath.

There is a place, and a woman, with this name in The Bible, but as women did not give their names to tribes we can assume that Ephratites were from the place named Ephrath.?

Gen 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Gen 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

Gen 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.

1 Chr 2:19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

Answer 4

Ephraim was the second son of Joseph (Joseph the one who lived in Egypt) by Asenath, the daughter of Potpherah (Genesis 46:20). His descendants became the tribe of Ephraim and when the Ten Tribes separated from the other two (Judah and Benjamin) Ephraim became the mainstay of the Northern Kingdom (Ten Tribes) and that kingdom was at times known as "Ephraim"

Answer 5

Genesis, near the end of ch.41.