tent

1. nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience

2. dwelling, home, habitation

3. the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)

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

to choose, elect, decide for

1. (Qal) to choose

2. (Niphal) to be chosen

3. (Pual) to be chosen, selected

Joseph = "Jehovah has added"

1. the eldest son of Jacob by Rachel

2. father of Igal, who represented the tribe of Issachar among the spies

3. a son of Asaph

4. a man who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

5. a priest of the family of Shebaniah in the time of Nehemiah

not, no

1. not (with verb - absolute prohibition)

2. not (with modifier - negation)

3. nothing (subst)

4. without (with particle)

5. before (of time)

to reject, despise, refuse

1. (Qal)

   1. to reject, refuse

   2. to despise

2. (Niphal) to be rejected

(Niphal) to flow, run

rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe

1. rod, staff

2. shaft (of spear, dart)

3. club (of shepherd's implement)

4. truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority)

5. clan, tribe