Ephraim = "double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful"

1. second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh

2. the tribe, Ephraim

3. the mountain country of Ephraim

4. sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah)

5. a city near Baal-hazor

6. a chief gate of Jerusalem

Gilead = "rocky region"

1. a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called 'Mount Gilead' or the 'land of Gilead' or just 'Gilead'. Divided into north and south Gilead

2. a city (with prefix 'Jabesh')

3. the people of the region

   proper masculine noun

4. son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh

5. father of Jephthah

6. a Gadite

to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern

1. (Qal)

   1. to cut in

   2. to cut in or on, cut upon, engrave, inscribe

   3. to trace, mark out

   4. to engrave, inscribe (of a law)

2. (Poel)

   1. to inscribe, enact, decree

   2. one who decrees, lawgiver (participle)

3. (Pual) something decreed, the law (participle)

4. (Hophal) to be inscribed

Judah = "praised"

1. the son of Jacob by Leah

2. the tribe descended from Judah the son of Jacob

3. the territory occupied by the tribe of Judah

4. the kingdom comprised of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin which occupied the southern part of Canaan after the nation split upon the death of Solomon

5. a Levite in Ezra's time

6. an overseer of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

7. a Levite musician in the time of Nehemiah

8. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

Manasseh = "causing to forget"

1. the eldest son of Joseph and progenitor of the tribe of Manasseh

   1. the tribe descended from Manasseh

   2. the territory occupied by the tribe of Manasseh

2. son of king Hezekiah of Judah and himself king of Judah; he was the immediate and direct cause for the exile

3. a descendant of Pahath-moab who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

4. a descendant of Hashum who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

place or means of safety, protection, refuge, stronghold

1. place of safety, fastness, harbour, stronghold

2. refuge (of God) (fig.)

3. human protection (fig.)

head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning

1. head (of man, animals)

2. top, tip (of mountain)

3. height (of stars)

4. chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)

5. head, front, beginning

6. chief, choicest, best

7. head, division, company, band

8. sum