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What does Ephraimite mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical, chiefly biblical) An allegiant of the Israelite tribal patriarch Ephraim, a member of the tribe purportedly descended from him, or an inhabitant of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (930–720 B.C.), in which the tribe of Ephraim was preëminent.
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His father therefore could not have been Ahijah the prophet, who was an Ephraimite.
What had she to ask from the Ephraimite, whom she had forever refused?
He alone possessed the needful courage and skill, and he was an Ephraimite.
So whenever they saw a man attempting to cross the river they asked him whether he was an Ephraimite, and if he denied it, they asked him to say the word shibboleth.
I had stumbled upon their shibboleth, and proclaimed myself an Ephraimite, and not of Gilead.

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