Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #7496 - רָפָא rapha (shades)


Original Word:רָפָא
Transliteration: rapha
Definition:shades, ghosts
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(raw-faw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

dead, deceased

From rapha' in the sense of raphah; properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only) -- dead, deceased.

see HEBREW rapha'

see HEBREW raphah


Englishman's Concordance

1) ghosts of the dead, shades, spirits
Part of Speech: noun masculine plural
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H7495 in the sense of H7503
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2198c

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I, II. רְפָאִים see below רפה.

I. רְפָאִיםnoun masculineJob 26:5

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


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7496. רְפָאּים (rapha) — 8 Occurrences

Job 26:5
HEB: הָרְפָאִ֥ים יְחוֹלָ֑לוּ מִתַּ֥חַת
NAS:The departed spirits tremble Under
KJV:Dead [things] are formed
INT:the departed tremble Under

Psalm 88:10
HEB:פֶּ֑לֶא אִם־ רְ֝פָאִ֗ים יָק֤וּמוּ ׀ יוֹד֬וּךָ
NAS: for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise
KJV: to the dead? shall the dead arise
INT: wonders lo spirits rise praise

Proverbs 2:18
HEB:בֵּיתָ֑הּ וְאֶל־ רְ֝פָאִ֗ים מַעְגְּלֹתֶֽיהָ׃
NAS: And her tracks [lead] to the dead;
KJV: and her paths unto the dead.
INT: her house to the dead tracks

Proverbs 9:18
HEB:יָ֭דַע כִּֽי־ רְפָאִ֣ים שָׁ֑ם בְּעִמְקֵ֖י
NAS: But he does not know that the dead are there,
KJV: But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests
INT: know that the dead are there the depths

Proverbs 21:16
HEB:הַשְׂכֵּ֑ל בִּקְהַ֖ל רְפָאִ֣ים יָנֽוּחַ׃
NAS: Will rest in the assembly of the dead.
KJV: in the congregation of the dead.
INT: of understanding the assembly of the dead will rest

Isaiah 14:9
HEB:עוֹרֵ֨ר לְךָ֤ רְפָאִים֙ כָּל־ עַתּ֣וּדֵי
NAS: It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all
KJV: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones
INT: come arouses the spirits all the leaders

Isaiah 26:14
HEB:בַּל־ יִחְי֔וּ רְפָאִ֖ים בַּל־ יָקֻ֑מוּ
NAS: will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;
KJV: they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise:
INT: will not live the departed will not rise

Isaiah 26:19
HEB:טַלֶּ֔ךָ וָאָ֖רֶץ רְפָאִ֥ים תַּפִּֽיל׃ ס
NAS: will give birth to the departed spirits.
KJV: and the earth shall cast out the dead.
INT: the dew and the earth to the departed will give

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