Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.

Ephraim in the wilderness

(Jn. 11:54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against him. It lay in the wild, uncultivated hill-country to the north-east of Jerusalem, betwen the central towns and the Jordan valley.