Hebrew n-m-t · H7497
רָפָא
rapharaw-faw'
Rapha; Rephaim; (Valley of) Rephaim; Raphaite
25 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 H7497is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7497
a giant
The King James renders it: giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also H1051 (בֵּית רָפָא).
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 "Rapha; Rephaim; (Valley of) Rephaim; Raphaite". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Seven of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "Rapha".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:5In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:5רְפָאִים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty-five uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: Rapha, and Rephaim, and (Valley of) Rephaim, and Raphaite.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| RaphaStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 14:5In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the… |
| RephaimStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| (Valley of) RephaimStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| RaphaiteStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Rephaites10
- the Rephaites5
- Rephaim3
- the Raphah2
- to the Rapha2
- to the Raphah2
- and the Rephaites1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 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
- רְפָאִֽים׃7
- רְפָאִ֖ים2
- הָרְפָאִים֒1
- הָרְפָאִ֑ים1
- הָרְפָאִ֔ים1
- הָרְפָאִ֖ים1
- הָרְפָאִֽים׃1
- הָרָפָ֗ה1
- הָרָפָֽה׃ פ1
- וְהָֽרְפָאִ֑ים1
- לְהָרָפָ֖א1
- לְהָרָפָֽא׃1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- gentilic noun (a people)7HNgmpa
- proper noun (a name)5HNpm
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)5HTd/Ngmpa
- preposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)4HR/Td/Npt
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)2HTd/Npt
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)1HC/Td/Ngmpa
- gentilic noun (a people)1HNgbpa
Genesis
two uses
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- רְפָאִים֙refaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
- הָרְפָאִֽים׃harefaimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Rephaites
Deuteronomy
five uses
Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
- רְפָאִ֛יםrefaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
- רְפָאִ֥יםrefaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
- רְפָאִ֤יםrefaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
- הָרְפָאִים֒harefaimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Rephaites
To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
Joshua
five uses
And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
- הָרְפָאִ֑יםharefaimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Rephaites
the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
- הָרְפָאִ֔יםharefaimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Rephaites
From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִ֖יםrefaimproper noun (a name)tagged: Rephaites
Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
- וְהָֽרְפָאִ֑יםveharefaimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Rephaites
Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim and ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the southern slope of the Jebusites and downward to En-rogel.
- רְפָאִ֖יםrefaimproper noun (a name)tagged: Rephaites
2 Samuel
seven uses
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimproper noun (a name)tagged: Rephaim
Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimproper noun (a name)tagged: Rephaim
Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.
- הָרָפָ֗הharafahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Raphah
Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.
- הָרָפָֽה׃ פharafahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Raphah
And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
- לְהָרָפָֽה׃leharafahpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: to the Raphah
So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.
- לְהָרָפָ֖הleharafahpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: to the Raphah
At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimproper noun (a name)tagged: Rephaites
1 Chronicles
five uses
Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaites
Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.
- הָרְפָאִ֖יםharefaimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Rephaites
And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
- לְהָרָפָֽא׃leharafa'preposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: to the Rapha
So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.
- לְהָרָפָ֖אleharafa'preposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: to the Rapha
Isaiah
one use
as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
- רְפָאִֽים׃refaimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Rephaim
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.