Shade
רְפָאִיםStrong’s H7496rapah (ra-pah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rapah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shades”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.”
Meaning
- Ghosts of the dead, shades, spirits
How it's translated
- shades 7
- the shades 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 3
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 88:10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
- Proverbs 2:18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
- Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
- Proverbs 21:16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
- Isaiah 14:9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Hebrew dictionary
רְפָאִים rapah · shade
ghosts of the dead, shades, spirits
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shade” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHADE, noun
[Latin scutum, a shield.]
- Literally, the interception, cutting of or interruption of the rays of light; hence, the obscurity which is caused by such interception.
- Darkness; obscurity; as the shades of night.
- An obscure place, properly in a grove or close wood, which precludes the sun's rays; an hence, a secluded retreat.
- A screen; something that intercepts light or heat.
All definitions and other forms of “shade”
- Protection; shelter. [See Shadow.]
- In painting, the dark part of the picture.
- Degree or gradation of light.
- A shadow. [See Shadow.]
- The soul, after its separation from the body; so called because the ancients supposed it to be perceptible to the sight, not to the touch; a spirit; aghost; as the shades of departed heroes.
SHADE, verb transitive
- To shelter or screen from light by intercepting its rays; and when applied to the rays of the sun, it segnifies to shelter from light and heat; as, a large tree shades the plants under its branches; shaded vegetables rarely come to perfection.
- To overspread with darkness or obscurity; to obscure.
- To shelter; to hide.
- To cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
- To paint in obscure colors; to darken.
- Tjo mark with gradations of color; as the shading pencil.
- To darken; to obscure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.