EPHRATH
Or EPHRATAH
1. The second wife of Caleb, and mother of Hur, 1 Chronicles 2:19; supposed by some to have given her name to the city of Ephrath or Beth-lehem, 1 Chronicles 2:50, 1 Chronicles 1:2; 1 Chronicles 1:4. Compare Genesis 35:16, Genesis 1:35. Elimelech was an Ephrathite of Bethlehem, Ruth 1:2; Ruth 1:4; so also was David, 1 Samuel 17:12.
2. A name of Ephraim and Ephreimites, 1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Kings 11:26; Psalms 132:6.