ephraim

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Definition of ephraim in English English dictionary

younger son of Joseph, eponymous ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel

a male given name

Burchfield Charles Ephraim Karo Joseph ben Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim

{i} male first name (Hebrew); Joseph's second son who was born in Egypt (Biblical); one of the 12 tribes of Israel named for Joseph's son (Biblical); city in Utah (USA); name for the grizzly bear hunter (Zoology)

A hunter's name for the grizzly bear

Related Terms

Ephraim Katzir

(born 1916) fourth president of Israel (1973-78)

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

born April 9, 1893, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, U.S. died Jan. 10, 1967, Gardenville, N.Y. U.S. painter. He attended the Cleveland School of Art and, after service in World War I, worked as a wallpaper designer in Buffalo, N.Y. In the 1920s and '30s he was one of the leading painters of American life; his work was associated with Edward Hopper's in its portrayal of the loneliness and bleakness of small-town life (e.g., November Evening, 1934). In the 1940s he abandoned realism for a more personal interpretation of nature, emphasizing its mystery, movement, and colour from season to season (e.g., The Sphinx and the Milky Way, 1946)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

{i} (1729-1781) German philosopher and playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (famous for his play "Nathan the Wise")

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

born Jan. 22, 1729, Kamenz, Upper Lusatia, Saxony died Feb. 15, 1781, Braunschweig, Brunswick German playwright and critic. After writing several light comedies, he became a theatre critic in Berlin in 1748. His play Miss Sara Sampson (1755) was the first German domestic tragedy. After studying philosophy and aesthetics in Breslau, he wrote the influential treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (1766). Minna von Barnhelm (1767), his finest play, marks the beginning of classical German comedy. He was adviser to the first Hamburg national theatre and published his reviews as essays on the principles of drama in Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-69). His Wolfenbüttel Fragments (1774-78) attacked orthodox Christianity, arousing great controversy. He also wrote the tragedy Emilia Galotti (1772) and the famous dramatic poem Nathan the Wise (1779)

Joseph ben Ephraim Caro

{i} (1488-1575) 16th century Jewish religious rabbinical authority and compiler of the Shulhan Aruch (Jewish code of laws)

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo

born 1488, Spain died March 24, 1575, Safed, Palestine Spanish-born Jewish scholar. When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, he and his parents settled in Turkey. Around 1536 he emigrated to Safed in Palestine, where he studied the Talmud and systematized the vast body of material produced by post-Talmudic writers. He was the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the House of Joseph, which was later condensed as The Well-Laid Table and is still authoritative for Orthodox Judaism

Hyphenation

E·phra·im

Turkish pronunciation

ifrım

Pronunciation

/ˈēfrəm/ /ˈiːfrəm/

Etymology

() Hebrew אֶפְרָיִם (Efráyim, “fruitful”).