The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
NMVAnd the name of the second he called Efrayim (Out of the Ashes I am Fruitful; fruitful in affliction): For God-Elōhīm [The Living Word - The Many Powered] has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
OJBAnd the shem of the second called he Ephrayim: For Elohim hifrani (hath caused me to be fruitful) in the eretz of my oni (suffering).
Onkelos (Etheridge)And the name of the second he called Ephraim; because the Lord hath made me to increase in the land of my servitude.
T4THe named his second son Ephraim, which means ‘to have children’, because, he said, “God has given me children here in this land where I have suffered.”