EPHRAIM, a city in the wilderness of Judea, to which Jesus withdrew from the persecution which followed the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead. It is placed by Eusebius eight Roman miles N. of Jerusalem. This would seem to make it the same with Ephraim mentioned in 2 Chron. xiii. 19 as one of the towns taken from Jeroboam by Abijah. It was also the name of a mountain or group of mountains in central Palestine, in the territory of the tribe of that name on or towards the borders of the land of Benjamin. The forest of Ephraim in which Absalom lost his life was in the country E. of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim.