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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #7496 - רְפָאִים

Transliteration

râphâʼ

Phonetics

raw-faw'

Origin

from (H7495) in the sense of (H7503)

Parts of Speech

masculine plural noun

TWOT

2198c

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

ghosts of the dead, shades, spirits

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (7)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

BSB (8)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 3

CSB (7)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 3

ESV (8)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 3

KJV (8)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 3

LEB (8)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 3

LSB (15)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 8

N95 (11)

Job 2

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 6

NAS (15)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 6

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (8)

Job 1

Psalms 1

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 3

ASV (7)

not that the dead 1

of the dead 1

shall they that are deceased 1

the dead 2

they that are deceased 1

unto the dead 1

BSB (8)

do departed spirits 1

her dead 1

of the dead 1

the dead 2

the departed spirits 2

the spirits of the dead 1

CSB (7)

of the departed 1

of the departed spirits 2

spirits 3

the departed spirits 1

ESV (8)

dead 4

departed 2

shades 2

KJV (8)

dead 7

deceased 1

LEB (8)

dead spirits 2

the dead 3

the dead spirits for you 1

the departed spirits rise up 1

the spirits of the dead 1

LSB (15)

dead 4

departed 4

of 1

spirits 5

the 1

N95 (11)

dead 4

departed 3

spirits 4

NAS (15)

dead 4

departed 4

of 1

spirits 5

the 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (8)

do the dead 1

of the dead 1

that the dead 1

the dead 2

the deceased 1

those who are deceased 1

to the dead 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1454) p r (רפ RP) AC: Heal CO: Medicine AB: Sick: The pictograph r is a picture of the head of a man, the p is a picture of an open mouth. Combined these mean "man open". Wounds, sickness and illnesses are cured with medicines made from plant materials which were pulverized into a medicinal power.

A) p r (רפ RP) AC: Heal CO: Idol AB: ?

i^m ) p r t (תרפ TRP) - Idol: A household idol of a god, possible believed to have a healing power. KJV (15): image, teraphim, idol, idolatry - Strongs: H8655 (תְּרָפִים)

E) a p r (רפא RPA) AC: Heal CO: Medicine AB: ?

V) a p r (רפא RPA) - Heal: [df: hpr] KJV (67): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Piel) heal, physician, cure, repair - Strongs: H7495 (רָפָה)

N^m ) a p r (רפא RPA) - Dead: KJV (8): dead, deceased - Strongs: H7496 (רְפָאִים)

a^m) a p r m (מרפא MRPA) - Health: KJV (16): healing, cure, healing, sound, wholesome, yielding - Strongs: H4832 (מַרְפֵּא)

d^f1) e a f p r (רפואה RPWAH) - Medicine: KJV (3): medicine - Strongs: H7499 (רְפוּאָה)

e^f3) t f a p i r (ריפאות RYPAWT) - Health: KJV (1): health - Strongs: H7500 (רִפְאוּת)

H) e p r (רפה RPH) AC: Weak CO: ? AB: ?: One weakened by illness or disease.

V) e p r (רפה RPH) - Weak: To be weak from sickness, laziness or work. KJV (46): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Piel, Participle) feeble, fail, weaken, go, alone, idle, stay, slack, faint, forsake, abate, cease - Strongs: H7503 (רָפָה)

N^m) e p r (רפה RPH) - Weak: KJV (4): weak - Strongs: H7504 (רָפֶה)

J) p f r (רופ RWP) AC: Pulverize CO: Medicine AB: ?

V) p f r (רופ RWP) - Pulverize: KJV (1): (vf: Piel) tremble - Strongs: H7322 (רוּף)

i^f1) e p f r t (תרופה TRWPH) - Medicine: KJV (1): medicine - Strongs: H8644 (תְּרוּפָה)

M) p i r (ריפ RYP) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Sick

N^f1 ) e p i r (ריפה RYPH) - Wheat: A grain pulverized with a mortar and pestle for making a flour. KJV (2): wheat, corn - Strongs: H7383 (רִפָה)

fj^m) n f i p i r (ריפיונ RYPYWN) - Feeble: KJV (1): feeblenss - Strongs: H7510 (רִפָּיוֹן)

Adopted Roots:

A2512 P r x (Burn, Venom)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

I, II. רְפָאִים see below רפה.

I. רְפָאִים noun masculine^{Job 26:5}

plural shades, ghosts (by most connected with above √, as sunken, powerless, ones, Sta^{G. i.420}; Phoenician רפאם); — Wisdom Literature and late, name of dead in She'ôl, with article ׳הָר Job 26:5, elsewhere nearly = proper name: ׳ר Isaiah 14:9 (in Sh®°ôl), Isaiah 26:4 ("" מֵתִים), Psalm 88:11 ("" id.), Proverbs 2:18 ("" מָוֶת), Proverbs 9:18 (in עִמְקֵי שְׁאוֺל), קְהַל רְפָאִים Proverbs 21:16; of righteous Israel Isaiah 26:19 earth shall cast forth ׳ר ("" מֵתֶיךָ).

List of Word Forms

הָרְפָאִ֥ים הרפאים רְ֝פָאִ֗ים רְפָאִ֖ים רְפָאִ֣ים רְפָאִ֥ים רְפָאִים֙ רפאים hā·rə·p̄ā·’îm harefaIm hārəp̄ā’îm rə·p̄ā·’îm refaIm rəp̄ā’îm