Etymology

Ephraim

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Today it means: The younger son of Joseph in the Bible, eponymous ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Full definition →

Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם
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The story

  1. Hebrew · derived fromאֶפְרַיִם“Ephraim”
  2. English todayEphraim

From Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם (Efráyim, “Ephraim”, literally “fruitful”), via Latin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.