And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Ephraim. That is, fruitful, or growing. (Challoner)
Being in the plural number, it means "productions. "
Poverty; where I have been poor and afflicted, though now advanced in honour. (Haydock)