Rapha
רָפָהStrong’s H7497rapah (ra-pah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rapah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rephaites”, “rephaim” and “raphah”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.16
- People descended from Repha(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.5
- Combined with re.pha.im (רְפָאִים " of Rephaim" H7497)
How it's translated
- rephaites 10
- the rephaites 5
- rephaim 3
- the raphah 2
- to the raphah 2
- to rapha 2
- and the rephaites 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 7
- Joshua 5
- 1 Chronicles 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- Genesis 2
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 15:20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- Deuteronomy 2:11Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- Deuteronomy 2:20(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
- Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deuteronomy 3:13And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
- Joshua 12:4And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Hebrew dictionary
רָפָה rapah · Rapha
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.16; father of: Goliath (H1555), Ishbi-benob (H3430), Saph (H5593), Lahmi (H3902), huge_man (H4060A); also translated "giant"; Also named: re.pha.im (רְפָאִים "Raphaite" H7497H) § giant, Rephah
זַמְזֻמִּים zamzom · Zamzummin
People descended from Repha(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.5 Another name of re.pha.im (רְפָאִים "Rephaim" H7497B) § Zamzummims = "plotters" the Ammonite name for the people who by others were called Rephaim, and were described as a numerous nation of giants; perhaps the same as 'Zuzim'
עֵ֫מֶק emeq · Valley (of Rephaim)
Combined with re.pha.im (רְפָאִים " of Rephaim" H7497) § valley, vale, lowland, open country
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.