H7496 · רָפָא
râphâʼ · raw-faw' · dead, deceased
H7496 (râphâʼ, pronounced raw-faw') is the Hebrew word רָפָא in Strong’s dictionary: properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead. It appears 8 times in 8 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- רָפָא (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- râphâʼ
- Pronunciation
- raw-faw'
- Derivation
- from H7495 (רָפָא) in the sense of H7503 (רָפָה);
- Definition
- properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
- Rendered in the KJV
- dead, deceased.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
8 occurrences in 8 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “the departed spirits” ×2
- “Do departed spirits” ×1
- “The dead” ×1
- “her dead” ×1
- “of the dead” ×1
- “the dead” ×1
- “the spirits of the dead” ×1
By book
Job 1 · Psalms 1 · Proverbs 3 · Isaiah 3
Verses
- Job 26:5
- Psalms 88:10
- Proverbs 2:18
- Proverbs 9:18
- Proverbs 21:16
- Isaiah 14:9
- Isaiah 26:14
- Isaiah 26:19
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H7496.