Strong's #7496: rapha' (pronounced raw-faw')

from 7495 in the sense of 7503; properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only):--dead, deceased.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râphâ'

1) ghosts of the dead, shades, spirits

Part of Speech: noun masculine plural

Relation: from H7495 in the sense of H7503

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Job 26:5: " Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants"
Psalms 88:10: "Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah."
Proverbs 2:18: "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: "out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
Isaiah 14:9: "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;"
Isaiah 26:14: "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited"
Isaiah 26:19: "of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."