Teraphim
תְּרָפִיםStrong’s H8655teraphim (te-ra-phim)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teraphim is the Hebrew word usually translated “teraphim”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.”
Meaning
- § 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol
How it's translated
- the teraphim 10
- and teraphim 4
- by the teraphim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 5
- Genesis 3
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Kings 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
- Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
- Genesis 31:35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
- Judges 17:5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- Judges 18:14Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
- Judges 18:17And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּרָפִים teraphim · teraphim
§ 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol 1a) a kind of idol used in household shrine or worship
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “teraphim” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TER'APHIM, noun
[Heb.]
Household deities or images.
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.