Strongs's #7497: rapha' - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #7497: rapha' (pronounced raw-faw')

or raphah {raw-faw'}; from 7495 in the sense of invigorating; a giant:--giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also 1051.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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râphâ' / râphâh

1) giants, Rephaim

1a) old tribe of giants

Part of Speech: noun proper, of tribe, gentilic
Relation: from H7495 in the sense of invigorating

Usage:

This word is used 21 times:

Genesis 14:5: "that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham,"
Genesis 15:20: "And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,"
Deuteronomy 2:11: "Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims."
Deuteronomy 2:20: "also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites"
Deuteronomy 2:20: "was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call"
Deuteronomy 3:11: "of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead"
Deuteronomy 3:13: "which was called the land of giants."
Joshua 12:4: "king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,"
Joshua 13:12: "who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out."
Joshua 15:8: "westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:"
Joshua 17:15: "country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim"
Joshua 18:16: "of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley"
2 Samuel 5:18: "also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim."
2 Samuel 5:22: "again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim."
2 Samuel 23:13: "of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim."
1 Chronicles 11:15: "of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim."
1 Chronicles 14:9: "came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim."
1 Chronicles 20:4: "Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued."
1 Chronicles 20:6: "on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant."
1 Chronicles 20:8: "These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand"
Isaiah 17:5: "as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim."

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