Bible Names

Rephaiah: meaning of the name

Rephaiah means “medicine or refreshment of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Rephaiah in Hebrew and Greek

רְפָיָה H7509

Rᵉphâyâh (ref-aw-yaw') — Rephajah, the name of five Israelites

from H7495 (רָפָא) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has cured;

People named Rephaiah in the Bible

Rephaiah in Scripture

“Rephaiah” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:21

    And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:42

    And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:2

    And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:43

    And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

  • Nehemiah 3:9

    And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.