Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10820 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ephrataEphratah

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 165 times in 90 works
Consistency: 99.4% (165 of 166)
Reach if approved: ~174 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 166 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (165 changes in 90 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 165)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with the Israelites into the Land of Canaan: at which time it is like EphrataEphratah tooke the name: and beside, if the name Bethlem were given in Elimelechs time …
With rule
… with the Israelites into the Land of Canaan: at which time it is like EphrataEphratah tooke the name: and beside, if the name Bethlem were given in Elimelechs time …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to others, and are beleveed by me: go on ſtill to doe worthily in EphrataEphratah, and to be famous in Bethlehem. Doe worthily in piety, do worthily in private …
With rule
… to others, and are beleveed by me: go on ſtill to doe worthily in EphrataEphratah, and to be famous in Bethlehem. Doe worthily in piety, do worthily in private …
Robert Abbot · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ſtranger and not thy own lips, Pro. 27.2. let a man do worthyly in EphrataEphratah, and he will be famous in Bethelem; he need not be his own trumpeter …
With rule
… a ſtranger and not thy own lips, Pro. 27.2. let a man do worthyly in EphrataEphratah, and he will be famous in Bethelem; he need not be his own trumpeter …
Edward Bury · The Husbandmans Companion · p. 370 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any difference: and that's done by drawing Micha's words into an interrogation, Thou Bethlehem EphrataEphratah art thou little among the thouſands of Iſrael? So St. Matthew varies not a …
With rule
… any difference: and that's done by drawing Micha's words into an interrogation, Thou Bethlehem EphrataEphratah art thou little among the thouſands of Iſrael? So St. Matthew varies not a …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… children and the crying parents was heard on high, reacht round about throughout all EphrataEphratah. Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning] If we observe this place, we shall confesse with …
With rule
… children and the crying parents was heard on high, reacht round about throughout all EphrataEphratah. Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning] If we observe this place, we shall confesse with …
Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
Somewhat it is the Scripture meaneth, I believe, in bringing Christ from Bethlehem-EphrataEphratah: by which we are also led, and bid by St. Matthew to look on …
With rule
Somewhat it is the Scripture meaneth, I believe, in bringing Christ from Bethlehem-EphrataEphratah: by which we are also led, and bid by St. Matthew to look on …
John Sadler · Rights of the Kingdom · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as theſe compariſons expreſs it, every way happily, for Chriſt was born in Bethlehem EphrataEphratah, Mic. 5. 2. The firſt word whereof ſignifieth an houſe of bread, and the other fruitfulneſs …
With rule
… as theſe compariſons expreſs it, every way happily, for Chriſt was born in Bethlehem EphrataEphratah, Mic. 5. 2. The firſt word whereof ſignifieth an houſe of bread, and the other fruitfulneſs …
Anthony Tuckney · Forty Sermons · p. 482 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maner of speech seemeth to be somewhat hard, yet certeyne it is, that by EphrataEphratah is vnderstand the kingdom of Iuda, whereof Dauid being an Ephratite, was King and …
With rule
… maner of speech seemeth to be somewhat hard, yet certeyne it is, that by EphrataEphratah is vnderstand the kingdom of Iuda, whereof Dauid being an Ephratite, was King and …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 258 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.