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ra.pah H7497

רָפָה (ra.pah) means “Rapha” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

רָפָה Hebrew · H7497 25 tagged occurrences in 24 verses

Pronunciation guide: raw-faw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7497A

רָפָה · ra.pah · Rapha

A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.16; father of: Goliath (H1555), Ishbi-benob (H3430), Saph (H5593), Lahmi (H3902), huge_man (H4060A); also translated "giant"; Also named: re.pha.im (רְפָאִים "Raphaite" H7497H) § giant, Rephah

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TBESH · H7497B

רְפָאִים · re.pha.im · Rephaim

1) giants, Rephaim 1a) old tribe of giants 2) People descended from Repha(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.5 Also named: zam.zom (זַמְזֻמִּים "Zamzummin" H2157)

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TBESH · H7497G

רְפָאִים · re.pha.im · (Valley of) Rephaim

Combined with e.meq (עֵ֫מֶק " Valley" H6010P) This name means giants,

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TBESH · H7497H

רְפָאִים · re.pha.im · Raphaite

Descendants from Rapha, who lived at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.16; father of: Goliath (H1555), Ishbi-benob (H3430), Saph (H5593), Lahmi (H3902), huge_man (H4060A); also translated "giant"; Group of ra.pah (רָפָה "Rapha" H7497A) giants, Rephaim old tribe of giants

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or רָפָה; from H7495 (רָפָא) in the sense of invigorating; a giant

KJV glosses: giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also H1051 (בֵּית רָפָא).

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How translators render H7497

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
of rephaim 8
of the rephaim 6
of rapha 4
from rapha 2
and the rephaim 1
as rephaim 1
rephaites 1
the rephaites 1
who 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
of rephaim 6
of the giant 4
of the giants 4
of giants 3
giants 2
to the giant 2
and of the giants 1
and the rephaims 1
the rephaims 1
unto the giant 1

Verses containing H7497

Page 1 of 1. 24 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 14:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  2. Genesis 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

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  3. Deuteronomy 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

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  4. Deuteronomy 2:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

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  5. Deuteronomy 3:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    (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.)

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  6. Deuteronomy 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.)

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  7. Joshua 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

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  8. Joshua 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  9. Joshua 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From there the border went up the Valley of Ben-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.

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  10. Joshua 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  11. Joshua 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Ben-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.

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  12. 2 Samuel 5:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

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  13. 2 Samuel 5:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

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  14. 2 Samuel 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  15. 2 Samuel 21:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, a descendant of Rapha.

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  16. 2 Samuel 21:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And there was also a 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,

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  17. 2 Samuel 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

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  18. 2 Samuel 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  19. 1 Chronicles 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  20. 1 Chronicles 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim.

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  21. 1 Chronicles 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  22. 1 Chronicles 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And there was also a 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,

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  23. 1 Chronicles 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

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  24. Isaiah 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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