Dictionary/Ecclesiastical/Ephraim

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Ephraim.

City of Palestine, in the tribe of Benjamin, anciently called Ophra or Ophera; now called Thayebeh, northeast of and adjacent to Bethel.
Tribe of Israel, issue of the second son of Joseph, whom Jacob adopted in giving to him the same rank as to his own sons.

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