Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7496
רָפָא
rapharaw-faw'
shade
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râphâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7496is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7496
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
The King James renders it: dead, deceased.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
rapha is rendered "shade". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 26:5The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Job 26:5הָרְפָאִ֥ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- shades7
- the shades1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רְ֝פָאִ֗ים2
- רְפָאִ֣ים2
- הָרְפָאִ֥ים1
- רְפָאִים֙1
- רְפָאִ֖ים1
- רְפָאִ֥ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural7HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Job
one use
The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
- הָרְפָאִ֥יםharefaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shades
Psalms
one use
Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- רְ֝פָאִ֗יםrefaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
Proverbs
three uses
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
- רְ֝פָאִ֗יםrefaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- רְפָאִ֣יםrefaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
- רְפָאִ֣יםrefaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
Isaiah
three uses
Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
- רְפָאִים֙refaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- רְפָאִ֖יםrefaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
- רְפָאִ֥יםrefaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: shades
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.