H7496: רָפָא
râphâʼ · pronounced raw-faw' · “shade”
Definition
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
KJV translates it as: dead, deceased.
Word origin: from H7495 (רָפָא) in the sense of H7503 (רָפָה);
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7496 is translated
- the shades ×5
- shades ×3
Bible verses with H7496 (râphâʼ)
Râphâʼ appears in 8 verses.
- Job 26:5
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
- Psalms 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
- Proverbs 2:18
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
- Proverbs 9:18
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
- Proverbs 21:16
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
- Isaiah 14:9
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
- Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.