To stamp
רָפַסStrong’s H7511raphas (ra-phas)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raphas is the Hebrew word usually translated “trampling” and “humble yourself”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.”
Meaning
- (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- trampling 1
- humble yourself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רָפַס raphas · to stamp
1) (Hithpael) 1c1) to stamp oneself down, humble oneself 1c2) stamping or tramping down (participle) Aramaic equivalent: re.phas (רְפַס "to tread" H7512)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stamp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STAMP, verb transitive
[G.]
In a general sense, to strike; to beat; to press. Hence,
- To strike or beat forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downwards; as, to stamp the ground.
- To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
- To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart. [See Enstamp.]
- To fix a mark by impressing it; as a notion of the Deity stamped on the mind.
All definitions and other forms of “stamp”
- To make by impressing a mark; as, to stamp pieces of silver.
- To coin; to mint; to form.
STAMP, verb intransitive
To strike the foot forcibly downwards.
STAMP, noun
- Any instrument for making impressions on other bodies.
- A mark imprinted; an impression.
- That which is marked; a thing stamped.
- A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
- A mark set upon things chargeable with duty to government, as evidence that the duty is paid.
- A character of reputation, good or bad, fixed on any thing.
- Authority; current value derived from suffrage or attestation.
- Make; cast; form; character; as a man of the same stamp or of a different stamp
- In metallurgy, a kind of pestle raised by a water wheel, for beating ores to powder; any thing like a pestle used for pounding or beating.
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.