Genesis 41:52
And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Note Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful or twice fruitful.
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Note Ephraim: that is, Fruitful
The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Note “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- called he
- A.M. 2293. B.C. 1711.
- Genesis 29:32–35; Genesis 30:6–13; Genesis 50:23
- Ephraim
- i.e., Fruitful.
- Genesis 48:16–19; Genesis 49:22; Isaiah 40:1, 2
- the land
- Psalm 105:17, 18; Amos 6:6; Acts 7:10