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Numbers26:35–37

The Tribe of Ephraim

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Numbers 26:35–37 — The Tribe of Ephraim. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.

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These were the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah, the Becherite clan from Becher, and the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

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’êl·leh ḇə·nê- ’ep̄·ra·yim lə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯām haš·šu·ṯal·ḥî miš·pa·ḥaṯ lə·šū·ṯe·laḥ hab·baḵ·rî miš·pa·ḥaṯ lə·ḇe·ḵer hat·ta·ḥă·nî miš·pa·ḥaṯ lə·ṯa·ḥan

Word by word13 · parsed
אֵ֣לֶּה’êl·lehThese [were]H428
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thosePronouncommon plural
Demonstrative אֵלֶּה (’êlleh) — “these are.” The recurring census formula: each tribe’s muster opens and closes with “these.”
בְנֵי־ḇə·nê-the descendantsH1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine plural construct
בְּנֵי in construct, “sons of.” The genealogy is reckoned through the male line that “builds the name” of the house.
אֶפְרַיִם֮’ep̄·ra·yimof EphraimH669
√ ʼEphrayim — Ephrajim, a son of JosephNounpropermasculine singular
אֶפְרַיִם, Ephraim (H669) — Joseph’s younger son (Genesis 41:52), whose name Joseph linked to pārāh, “to be fruitful”: “God has made me fruitful (הִפְרַנִי) in the land of my affliction.” A name built on fruitfulness now stands over a tribe whose count has fallen by eight thousand (v. 37) — the irony is not lost on the commentators, and it is the soil from which Ellicott draws the contrast with Jacob’s promise. The tribe is counted here on the plains of Moab, a generation after Sinai.
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒lə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯāmby their clansH4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iPreposition-lNounfeminine plural constructthird person masculine plural
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם (H4940), the census refrain — “by their clans.” The same root mišpāḥāh recurs eleven times across these three verses, the structural drumbeat of the muster.
הַשֻּׁ֣תַלְחִ֔יhaš·šu·ṯal·ḥîThe ShuthelahiteH8364
√ Shuthalchîy — a Shuthalchite (collectively) or descendants of ShuthelachArticleNounpropermasculine singular
הַשֻּׁתַלְחִי (H8364), the Shuthelahite — a collective gentilic. The article + -î ending makes a whole family out of one ancestor’s name.
מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙miš·pa·ḥaṯclanH4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iNounfeminine singular construct
מִשְׁפַּחַת (H4940), “clan of” — the construct that ties each gentilic back to its founder.
לְשׁוּתֶ֗לַחlə·šū·ṯe·laḥfrom ShuthelahH7803
√ Shûwthelach — Shuthelach, the name of two IsraelitesPreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
לְשׁוּתֶלַח, Shuthelah (H7803) — Ephraim’s firstborn line. A rare name: it occurs in only four verses in all Scripture (here, v. 36, and 1 Chronicles 7:20–21), which makes its reappearance in Chronicles a genuine verbal link, not a coincidence.
הַבַּכְרִ֑יhab·baḵ·rîthe BecheriteH1076
√ Bakrîy — a Bakrite (collectively) or descendants of BekerArticleNounpropermasculine singular
הַבַּכְרִי (H1076), the Becherite — descendants of Becher (H1071), called Bered in 1 Chronicles 7:20 (so Poole).
מִשְׁפַּ֖חַתmiš·pa·ḥaṯclanH4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iNounfeminine singular construct
מִשְׁפַּחַת (H4940), “clan of” — the formula repeats, holding the list to one rhythm.
לְבֶ֕כֶרlə·ḇe·ḵerfrom BecherH1071
√ Beker — Beker, the name of two IsraelitesPreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
לְבֶכֶר, Becher (H1071) — Ephraim’s second son named here. The name (cf. bəḵôr, firstborn) is itself a rare one, shared with a son of Benjamin (Genesis 46:21).
הַֽתַּחֲנִֽי׃hat·ta·ḥă·nî[and] the TahaniteH8470
√ Tachănîy — a Tachanite (collectively) or descendants of TachanArticleNounpropermasculine singular
הַתַּחֲנִי (H8470), the Tahanite — third gentilic. Its ancestor Tahan (H8465) is rarer still: only two verses in the whole canon carry his name (here and 1 Chronicles 7:25).
מִשְׁפַּ֖חַתmiš·pa·ḥaṯclanH4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iNounfeminine singular construct
מִשְׁפַּחַת (H4940), “clan of” — the third repetition; the verse is built of three identical frames.
לְתַ֕חַןlə·ṯa·ḥanfrom TahanH8465
√ Tachan — Tachan, the name of two IsraelitesPreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
לְתַחַן, Tahan (H8465) — third son of Ephraim by this reckoning. Henry and K&D both count four Ephraimite families: three from sons, one (the Eranite, v. 36) from a grandson.
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And the descendants of Shuthelah were the Eranite clan from Eran.

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wə·’êl·leh bə·nê šū·ṯā·laḥ hā·‘ê·rā·nî miš·pa·ḥaṯ lə·‘ê·rān

Word by word6 · parsed
וְאֵ֖לֶּהwə·’êl·lehAndH428
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thoseConjunctive wawPronouncommon plural
וְאֵלֶּה — “and these,” the waw marking a nested sub-list: the line of Shuthelah’s own son, a generation deeper than v. 35.
בְּנֵ֣יbə·nêthe descendantsH1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine plural construct
בְּנֵי (H1121), “sons of” — now reckoning the descendants of a descendant. The genealogy drills one level down.
שׁוּתָ֑לַחšū·ṯā·laḥof Shuthelah [were]H7803
√ Shûwthelach — Shuthelach, the name of two IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
שׁוּתָלַח (H7803), Shuthelah — Ephraim’s firstborn, here standing as the father of a further clan. His single grandson’s family explains why the commentators count four Ephraimite clans, not three.
הָעֵרָנִֽי׃hā·‘ê·rā·nîthe EraniteH6198
√ ʻÊrânîy — an Eranite or descendant (collectively) of EranArticleNounpropermasculine singular
הָעֵרָנִי (H6198), the Eranite — the lone grandson-clan of Ephraim. K&D: “one from his grandson.”
מִשְׁפַּ֖חַתmiš·pa·ḥaṯclanH4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iNounfeminine singular construct
מִשְׁפַּחַת (H4940), “clan of” — the same refrain, holding the sub-list to the chapter’s rhythm.
לְעֵרָ֕ןlə·‘ê·rānfrom EranH6197
√ ʻÊrân — Eran, an IsraelitePreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
לְעֵרָן, Eran (H6197) — the ancestor. Poole: called Edan or Laadan in 1 Chronicles 7:26, the dālet/rêš swap a known scribal phenomenon.
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These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.

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Hebrew — tap a word ↓

’êl·leh miš·pə·ḥōṯ bə·nê- ’ep̄·ra·yim lip̄·qu·ḏê·hem šə·na·yim ū·šə·lō·šîm ’e·lep̄ wa·ḥă·mêš mê·’ō·wṯ ’êl·leh lə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯām ḇə·nê- yō·w·sêp̄

Word by word14 · parsed
אֵ֣לֶּה’êl·lehThese [were]H428
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thosePronouncommon plural
אֵלֶּה (H428), “these” — the closing bracket of the Ephraim muster, matching the “these” that opened it in v. 35.
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֤תmiš·pə·ḥōṯthe clansH4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iNounfeminine plural construct
מִשְׁפְּחֹת (H4940), “the clans of” — the census term, now summing the families just listed.
בְּנֵי־bə·nê-vvvH1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine plural construct
בְּנֵי (H1121), “sons of” — construct chain: the-clans-of the-sons-of Ephraim.
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙’ep̄·ra·yimof EphraimH669
√ ʼEphrayim — Ephrajim, a son of JosephNounpropermasculine singular
אֶפְרַיִם (H669), Ephraim — named again as the muster closes, his total now fixed.
לִפְקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔םlip̄·qu·ḏê·hemand their registration numberedH6485
√ pâqad — to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)Preposition-lVerbQalQalPassParticiplemasculine plural constructthird person masculine plural
לִפְקֻדֵיהֶם (H6485, pāqad) — the key verb of the whole chapter, here a Qal passive participle, “their mustered / visited ones.” Pāqad spans a remarkable semantic range — to number, to appoint, to attend to, to call to account — and the same root carries the LORD’s visiting a people for blessing (Genesis 21:1; Exodus 3:16) or for judgment (Exodus 32:34; Numbers 14:29, the verse that decreed this very generation should fall in the wilderness). To be in this register is to be not merely tallied but reckoned with by God: the diminished 32,500 is a number He has personally visited.
שְׁנַ֧יִםšə·na·yim. . . 32,500H8147
√ shᵉnayim — twoNumbermd
שְׁנַיִם (H8147), “two” — the units of the total, counted up additively in Hebrew fashion.
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛יםū·šə·lō·šîm. . .H7970
√ shᵉlôwshîym — thirtyConjunctive wawNumbercommon plural
וּשְׁלֹשִׁים (H7970), “and thirty” — joined by waw to the prior word.
אֶ֖לֶף’e·lep̄. . .H505
√ ʼeleph — hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousandNumbermasculine singular
אֶלֶף (H505), “thousand” — the word whose root, the lexicon notes, is the ox-head letter ’ālep̄, first of the alphabet, later pressed into service as a numeral.
וַחֲמֵ֣שׁwa·ḥă·mêš. . .H2568
√ châmêsh — fiveConjunctive wawNumberfeminine singular construct
וַחֲמֵשׁ (H2568), “and five” — the hundreds-component begins.
מֵא֑וֹתmê·’ō·wṯ. . .H3967
√ mêʼâh — a hundredNumberfeminine plural
מֵאוֹת (H3967), “hundreds” — closing the figure: 32,500. Against the 40,500 of Numbers 1:33, a fall of 8,000 (so Gill, Ellicott, Benson).
אֵ֥לֶּה’êl·lehTheseH428
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thosePronouncommon plural
אֵלֶּה (H428), “these” — a second “these,” widening the frame from Ephraim alone to the whole house of Joseph.
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃סlə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯāmclans [were]H4940
√ mishpâchâh — a family, iPreposition-lNounfeminine plural constructthird person masculine plural
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם (H4940), “by their clans” — the refrain one last time, the chapter’s structural signature.
בְנֵי־ḇə·nê-the descendantsH1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine plural construct
בְּנֵי (H1121), “sons of” — construct to Joseph; Ephraim and Manasseh together are reckoned as Joseph’s line.
יוֹסֵ֖ףyō·w·sêp̄of JosephH3130
√ Yôwçêph — Joseph, the name of seven IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
יוֹסֵף (H3130), Joseph — the name that closes the muster. Joseph has no tribe of his own; his birthright passed to two tribes through his sons, the double portion of the firstborn (1 Chronicles 5:1–2).

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i. A list that is anything but dead weight — 35–37

Three verses of pure genealogy — “of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahite; of Becher, the clan of the Becherite” — and the temptation is to skim. Matthew Henry refuses to: he reads the whole muster as the moment when “the families [are] registered, as well as the tribes,” a roll where God “did not number the people but when God commanded him.” The Hebrew makes the same point structurally. The refrain לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם (mišpāḥāh, H4940, “by their clans”) tolls eleven times across these three verses; the demonstrative אֵלֶּה (“these”) opens and closes the Ephraim entry like a seal. This is not an archive. It is a covenant people being counted by name on the threshold of the land.

ii. Four families, three generations — 35–36

Every public-domain hand agrees on the arithmetic of the household. Keil & Delitzsch: “There were four families descended from Ephraim; three from his sons, and one from his grandson.” The Pulpit Commentary fills in the shadow behind the list — that 1 Chronicles 7:21 names two other sons of Ephraim … who were killed in their father’s lifetime, and a third, Beriah, “the ancestor of Joshua,” who founded no separate clan. So the registry is also a record of loss: families that began and did not continue. The grammar of v. 36 marks the one branch that did go deeper — וְאֵלֶּה בְּנֵי שׁוּתָלַח, “and these are the sons of Shuthelah” — drilling a generation down to the lone grandson-clan, the Eranite.

iii. The verb that turns a census into a visitation — 37

The total lands hard: שְׁנַיִם וּשְׁלֹשִׁים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹת — 32,500. Gill, Ellicott, and Benson all do the subtraction against the first census of Numbers 1:33 (40,500) and arrive at the same wound: “a decrease in this tribe of 8000” (Gill). The word governing the count is לִפְקֻדֵיהֶם (pāqad, H6485) — not a neutral “registration” but a visiting, mustering, calling-to-account. The same root tracks the wilderness generation that fell. Ellicott then notices the deep irony: Ephraim is shrinking here, yet “Jacob foretold that Ephraim should be greater than Manasseh” (Genesis 48:19), and Moses, even now, ascribes to him the “ten thousands of Ephraim” (Deuteronomy 33:17). The numbers dip; the promise holds. The verse closes by gathering both halves of Joseph’s house under one name — בְּנֵי יוֹסֵף, “the sons of Joseph” — the double portion of the firstborn made flesh in two tribes (1 Chronicles 5:1–2).

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Read under Scripture alone, the census is a theology of faithfulness that outlasts arithmetic. Ephraim is down eight thousand — and the text neither hides it nor explains it away; it simply records the smaller number and keeps the older promise (Genesis 48:19; Deuteronomy 33:17) standing, unrevised, in the same canon. That is the pattern: God’s word about a people is not indexed to that people’s headcount in any given year. The very verb of the muster, pāqad, “to visit / attend to,” insists that being counted by God is being known by Him — a chain of named clans, each tied to a real ancestor, none lost in the aggregate. And the list’s buried footnote is the heaviest weight in it: Beriah of Ephraim, who founded no famous family, is “the ancestor of Joshua” (Pulpit Commentary) — the savior-named man who will lead this very people across the Jordan. The smallest entries carry the largest providence. This is the tool’s fallible reading; weigh it against the Word itself.

The numbers fell by eight thousand; the promise did not move an inch — and the man who would cross the Jordan was hidden in a clan too small to name. (A reading to be tested, not a verse.)

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The Ephraimite genealogy re-told in Chronicles verbal / quotation — confirmed

The Chronicler returns to this exact household and extends it: “The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah … of the descendants of Sutelah several links are given” (K&D on 1 Chronicles 7:20). The link is genuinely verbal, not merely topical — the name Shuthelah (Shûwthelach) occurs in only four verses in all of Scripture, and two of them are this Chronicles passage. A rare lexeme shared between two genealogies is the strongest kind of verbal tie.

1 Chronicles 7:20 · 1 Chronicles 7:21

basis: rare shared lexeme H7803 Shûwthelach (in only 4 vv canon-wide) plus H669 ʼEphrayim; Verifier-confirmed Hebrew↔Hebrew verbal link, 1 Chr 7:20 also sharing H669

Tahan the Ephraimite — a name in only two verses verbal / quotation — confirmed

The clan-father Tahan (Tachan) of v. 35 surfaces again in the Chronicler’s Ephraim genealogy. This is the rarest lexeme in the unit: the name Tachan appears in exactly two verses in the entire Hebrew Bible — here and 1 Chronicles 7:25. When a proper name that scarce reappears, the verbal connection is about as certain as a cross-reference can be.

1 Chronicles 7:25

basis: rare shared lexeme H8465 Tachan (in only 2 vv canon-wide); Verifier-confirmed Hebrew↔Hebrew verbal link

Becher — a rare name shared, but not the same man flagged — verify source

The name Becher (Beker, H1071) is rare — only four verses in all of Scripture — and the Verifier flags it as a shared lexeme between this verse and Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:6, 7:8. But honesty cuts against the obvious inference: the Becher of Numbers 26:35 is a son of Ephraim, while the Becher of Genesis 46:21 and 1 Chronicles 7 is a son of Benjamin. The shared word is genuine; the person is not. This is precisely the trap a bare Strong’s match sets — a rare name reused for two different men — and the reader should treat the link as lexical only, never as identifying one ancestor across the passages.

Genesis 46:21 · 1 Chronicles 7:6 · 1 Chronicles 7:8

basis: Verifier reports a rare shared lexeme (H1071 Beker, in only 4 vv) — but the referents differ: Ephraim's son here vs. Benjamin's son in Gen 46:21 / 1 Chr 7. Verbal match, distinct persons; flagged so the homonym is not mistaken for a single ancestor

The shrinking census — Ephraim against its first muster structural / thematic — confirmed

The same tribe was numbered at Sinai a generation earlier at 40,500 (Numbers 1:33); here it stands at 32,500 — the decrease of 8,000 that Gill, Ellicott, and Benson all record. The Verifier finds the two musters of Ephraim sharing the census verb pāqad (H6485), the tribal name ’Eprayim (H669), and the very number-words of the total (’elep̄, ḥāmêš, mêʼâh), which is what makes the comparison a structural parallel built into the text’s own vocabulary, not an inference imposed on it. No quotation is claimed — only the same mustering-formula run twice over the same tribe, a generation apart, with a different result.

Numbers 1:33

basis: Verifier-confirmed shared census vocabulary across the two Ephraim musters: H6485 pâqad, H669 ʼEphrayim, H2568 châmêsh, H505 ʼeleph, H3967 mêʼâh — common terms, so structural/thematic not verbal; no quotation claimed

The promise that the falling number could not cancel structural / thematic — confirmed

Ellicott and Benson both reach past the deficit to Moses’ blessing: even as Ephraim shrinks, the LORD through Moses speaks of the “ten thousands of Ephraim” set above the “thousands of Manasseh” (Deuteronomy 33:17). The two passages share Ephraim (H669) and the word ’elep̄ (“thousand,” H505) — a thematic, motif-level link (census number vs. blessing-hyperbole), not a quotation, so it is tiered structural rather than verbal.

Deuteronomy 33:17

basis: shared lexemes H669 ʼEphrayim and H505 ʼeleph (common, freq 391) — a thematic motif of Ephraim's numbers, not a quotation; Verifier-confirmed structural

Jacob’s prophecy of the younger son — argued, not lexically anchored flagged — verify source

Ellicott grounds the whole irony of the passage in Jacob’s deathbed word that the younger Ephraim would surpass the elder Manasseh (Genesis 48:19). The connection is real and ancient in the interpretive tradition — but it must be argued, because the Verifier finds no shared original-language lexeme between Numbers 26:37 and Genesis 48:19. Honesty requires flagging it: this is a commentator’s thematic synthesis, persuasive but not anchored in shared words, and the reader should test it against both texts.

Genesis 48:19

basis: Verifier found NO shared original-language lexeme; the Ephraim-over-Manasseh link is Ellicott's thematic argument (defensible, traditional) but not a verbal connection — verify before relying on it as a textual cross-reference

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Joshua, hidden in the smallest clan of Ephraim ancient/widely-held

The Pulpit Commentary surfaces the buried name behind this very genealogy: Beriah, an Ephraimite who “does not seem to have founded a separate family,” yet “was the ancestor of Joshua” — and indeed the Chronicler’s parallel runs the Ephraim line down to “Joshua his son” (1 Chronicles 7:27). So the savior-named leader — Yəhôšua‘, “the LORD saves,” which is Ἰησοῦς, Jesus, in Greek (Acts 7:45; Hebrews 4:8) — rises out of the tribe being counted here, indeed out of a line too obscure to found a clan of its own in the muster. The one who will bring Israel across the Jordan into the inheritance is already latent in Numbers 26, in a household the list itself does not enumerate. That the deliverer is hidden in the least is a pattern the New Testament makes explicit (cf. the rest God’s people did not obtain through Joshua, Hebrews 4:8). Note: this is a typological reading of an ancient genealogical link, not a claim that Numbers 26:35 verbally cites the New Testament.

Numbers 26:35 · 1 Chronicles 7:27 · Hebrews 4:8

Joseph’s double portion, foreshadowing the firstborn who shares His inheritance ancient/widely-held

The unit closes by reckoning both Ephraim and Manasseh as “the sons of Joseph” (v. 37) — Joseph receiving, through his two sons, the double portion of the firstborn (1 Chronicles 5:1–2). The church has long read Joseph as a type of Christ: the rejected and exalted brother who becomes the savior of his people, whose inheritance is doubled and shared out. Here that birthright is literally multiplied into a household, a foretaste of the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:15, 18) into whose inheritance the many are gathered.

Numbers 26:37 · 1 Chronicles 5:1 · Colossians 1:18

Apparatus & Provenance

The biblical text is the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain (CC0). Hebrew/Greek text, transliteration, morphology and Strong’s are transcribed from the Berean interlinear (CC0) + Strong’s lexicons (PD); the literal renderings, divergence notes, word notes and all synthesis are this tool’s own work (⚙) — fallible; verify them.

Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:

  • Charles Ellicott, Commentary for English Readers (1878)
  • Geneva Study Bible, Marginal Notes (1599)
  • John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1746–63)
  • Joseph Benson, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1810s)
  • Keil & Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1860s)
  • Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706)
  • Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible (1685)
  • The Pulpit Commentary, Spence & Exell, eds. (1880s)

This unit is three verses of census genealogy (Numbers 26:35–37), the Ephraim entry in the second wilderness muster. Several public-domain commentaries in the source set are chapter-level notes keyed to 26:1–51 (Henry) or to other tribes in the chapter (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown’s note is on Simeon, v. 12; Barnes’ on the sons of Korah, v. 58) and so do not bear directly on the Ephraimite clans; those have been used sparingly and only where a genuinely general claim applies. Poole offers no note on v. 37 in the source. The Geneva note merely restates the verse. The thread tiers are taken from the Verifier’s computed bases: the 1 Chronicles 7 links to Shuthelah (in 4 verses) and Tahan (in only 2) rest on genuinely rare shared names and are therefore verbal; the Numbers 1:33 and Deuteronomy 33:17 links rest on common census/number vocabulary and are tiered structural. Two links are deliberately flagged: the Genesis 48:19 “Ephraim > Manasseh” connection, though traditional and exegetically defensible (Ellicott), has no shared original-language lexeme and is a thematic argument, not a verbal tie; and the Becher link (a rare shared name, H1071, in only 4 verses) is flagged because the Verifier’s lexical match conceals a homonym — Ephraim’s son Becher here versus Benjamin’s son Becher in Genesis 46:21 and 1 Chronicles 7, a verbal coincidence between two different men. The Joshua and Joseph readings are placed in the Christ section as typological/figural (ancient, widely-held), not asserted as verbal cross-references, since the Old Testament–to–New links cannot rest on shared Strong’s numbers. Every voice above is a verbatim, contiguous excerpt of the supplied public-domain text, trimmed only at the ends.

✦ = human, public-domain source, quoted and named. ⚙ = machine synthesis, to be verified. Flagged cross-references are left visible on purpose — the verifier working in the open. “Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)