To foul
רָפַשׂStrong’s H7515raphas (ra-pha-s)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raphas is the Hebrew word usually translated “fouled” and “are fouling”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.”
Meaning
- To stamp, tread, foul by stamping or treading(Qal) to tread down, foul by treading, foul with the feet · (Niphal) to be fouled
How it's translated
- fouled 1
- and you fouled 1
- you are fouling 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 32:2Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
- Ezekiel 34:18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Hebrew dictionary
רָפַשׂ raphas · to foul
1) to stamp, tread, foul by stamping or treading 1a) (Qal) to tread down, foul by treading, foul with the feet 1b) (Niphal) to be fouled
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foul” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOUL, adjective
- Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.“My face is foul with weeping” Job 16:16
- Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.
- Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.
- Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.
All definitions and other forms of “foul”
- Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.
- Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.
- Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.“Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit” Revelation 18:2
- Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.
- Hateful; ugly; loathsome.
- Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.
- Coarse; gross.
- Full of gross humors or impurities.
- Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul
- Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul
- Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.
- Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.
- Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.
- To fall foul is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.
- To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.
FOUL, verb transitive
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands.
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.