Ephraim, one of the 12 tribes of Israel, the one to which Joshua belonged, located in the centre of the land; powerful in the days of the Judges, the chief of the 10 tribes that revolted under Jeroboam after the death of Solomon, and is found often to give name to the whole body of them.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ephraem Syrus * Epic