Bible Location
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Ephrath is the older or poetic form associated with Bethlehem and the surrounding district. It is important because it preserves the older place-name tradition behind one of the Bible's most significant towns. First appears in Gen 35:16.1
AI summary: Ephrath matters because it helps connect later Bethlehem traditions to older naming layers in the land. The name carries strong associations with ancestry, burial memory, and the district that would later be central to Davidic and messianic hopes. The cross references present Ephrath as an older regional name bound up with Bethlehem's enduring significance.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.