Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Efrayim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before YY , and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and YY remembered her.
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of BethlehemYhudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of BethlehemYhudah, whose name was Yishai; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Yisrael, that there was a certain Levi sojourning on the side of mount Efrayim, who took to him a concubine out of BethlehemYhudah.
And the Giladis took the passages of Yarden before the Efrayimites: and it was so, that when those Efrayimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilad said unto him, Art thou an Efrayimite? If he said, Nay;
And Yarovam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Shlomo's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
And he passed through mount Efrayim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.