Dict: easton - Ephraim

easton:

Ephraim @ double fruitfulness ("for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction"). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt kjv@Genesis:41:52 kjv@Genesis:46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being placed, along with his brother Manasseh, before their grandfather, Jacob, that he might bless them (48:10; comp. 27:1). The intention of Joseph was that the right hand of the aged patriarch should be placed on the head of the elder of the two; but Jacob set Ephraim the younger before his brother, "guiding his hands wittingly." Before Joseph's death, Ephraim's family had reached the third generation kjv@Genesis:50:23).

Ephraim in the wilderness @ kjv@John:11:54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against him. It lay in the wild, uncultivated hill-country to the north-east of Jerusalem, betwen the central towns and the Jordan valley.