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    Ephraim

    EE-fray-im

    Meaning

    Doubly fruitful; Fruitful

    Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Genesis

    What it points to

    Ephraim is fruitfulness in affliction — the double harvest that grows from pain's soil, God's provision in suffering's land.

    Verses · King James Version

    “And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

    Genesis 41:52

    “From me is thy fruit found.”

    Hosea 14:8

    Most used in the 1880s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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