Ephratah

Town · also Ephrathah · today Bethlehem

Location well established About 8 km (5 miles, 45 furlongs) south of Jerusalem

Ephratah in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 2 Verses

• Ruth 4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
• Psalms 132:6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

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