Lexicon rapha: shades, ghosts Original Word: רְפָאּיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: rapha Phonetic Spelling: (raw-faw') Short Definition: spirits NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom raphahDefinitionshades, ghosts NASB Translationdead (3), departed spirits (4), spirits of the dead (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I, II. רְפָאִים see below רפה. I. רְפָאִים noun masculineJob 26:5 plural shades, ghosts (by most connected with above √, as sunken, powerless, ones, StaG. i.420; Phoenician רפאם); — Wisdom Literature and late, name of dead in She'ôl, with article ׳הָר Job 26:5, elsewhere nearly = proper name: ׳ר Isaiah 14:9 (in Sh®°ôl), Isaiah 26:4 ("" מֵתִים), Psalm 88:11 ("" id.), Proverbs 2:18 ("" מָוֶת), Proverbs 9:18 (in עִמְקֵי שְׁאוֺל), קְהַל רְפָאִים Proverbs 21:16; of righteous Israel Isaiah 26:19 earth shall cast forth ׳ר ("" מֵתֶיךָ).
Strong's dead, deceased From rapha' in the sense of raphah; properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only) -- dead, deceased. see HEBREW rapha' see HEBREW raphah |
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