The younger son of Joseph in the Bible, eponymous ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. / A male given name from Hebrew. / A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.

(history, 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.

plural of Ephraimite