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Inhabitant of Ephrath or Beth-lehem-judah. Ruth 1: 2; 1 Sam. 17:
12. The same Hebrew word occurs in 1 Sam. 1: 1; 1 Kings 11: 26, where some translate 'Ephraimite,' as in the R.V., and as is evidently the meaning of the same word in Judges 12: 4, 5. As to 1 Sam. 1: 1, Elkanah, though a Levite, may have been called an Ephraimite because located in that tribe: cf. Judges 17: 7.