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

Asher = "happy"

1. son of Jacob and Zilpah

2. the tribe descended from Asher

3. a city east of Shechem in Manasseh

border, territory

1. border

2. territory (enclosed within boundary)

3. region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)

to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out

1. (Qal)

   1. —

      1. to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass

      2. to come about, come to pass

   2. to come into being, become

      1. to arise, appear, come

      2. to become

         1. to become

         2. to become like

         3. to be instituted, be established

   3. to be

      1. to exist, be in existence

      2. to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)

      3. to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)

      4. to accompany, be with

2. (Niphal)

   1. to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about

   2. to be done, be finished, be gone

sea

1. Mediterranean Sea

2. Red Sea

3. Dead Sea

4. Sea of Galilee

5. sea (general)

6. mighty river (Nile)

7. the sea (the great basin in the temple court)

8. seaward, west, westward

Issachar = "there is recompense"

1. the 9th son of Jacob and the 5th by Leah his first wife and the progenitor of a tribe by his name

2. a Korahite Levite and the 7th son of Obed-edom and doorkeeper to the temple

   proper collective noun

3. the tribe descended from Issachar the son of Jacob

   proper locative noun

4. the territory allocated to the descendants of Issachar when they entered the land of Canaan

place of sunrise, east

1. sunrise, east (with 'sun')

2. the east (without 'sun')

   1. to or toward the place of sunrise

   2. to the east, eastward

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

south-country, Nekeb, south

1. south-country

   1. region of southern Judah, boundaries not specific

2. south

to encounter, meet, reach, entreat, make intercession

1. (Qal)

   1. to meet, light upon, join

   2. to meet (of kindness)

   3. to encounter, fall upon (of hostility)

   4. to encounter, entreat (of request)

   5. to strike, touch (of boundary)

2. (Hiphil)

   1. to cause to light upon

   2. to cause to entreat

   3. to make entreaty, interpose

   4. to make attack

   5. to reach the mark

north (of direction), northward

1. north

2. northward