Word Summary
Rhemphan: Remphan
Original Word: ῬεμφάνTransliteration: Rhemphan
Phonetic Spelling: (hrem-fan')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Remphan
Meaning: Remphan
Strong's Concordance
Remphan.
By incorrect transliteration for a word of Hebrew origin (Kiyuwn); Remphan (i.e. Kijun), an Egyptian idol -- Remphan.
see HEBREW Kiyuwn
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4481: ῬεμφάνῬεμφάν (
R G), or
Ρ᾽εφαν (
L Tr), or
Ρ᾽ομφαν (
T) (or
Ρ᾽ομφα WH, see their Appendix on Acts as below),
Remphan (so
A. V.), or
Rephan (so
R. V.),
Romphan (or
Rompha), a Coptic pr. name of Saturn:
Acts 7:43, from
Amos 5:26 where the
Sept. render by
Ραιφαν (or
Ρ᾽εφαν) the Hebrew
כִּיוּן, thought by many to be equivalent to the Syriac
nw)K [
], and the Arabic designations of Saturn; but by others regarded as an appellative, signifying 'stand,' 'pedestal' (German Gerüst; so Hitzig), or 'statue' (so Gesenins), formed from כּוּן after the analogy of such forms as חִבּוּק, פִּגּוּל, etc. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Saturn; Gesenius, Thesaurus, p. 669{b}; J. G. Müller in Herzog xii. 736; Merx in Schenkel i., p. 516f; Schrader in Riehm, p. 234; (Baudissin in Herzog edition 2 under the word Saturn, and references there given; B. D., under the word ). STRONGS NT 4481: Ρ᾽ομφα [ Ρ᾽ομφα, Ρ᾽ομφαν, see Ῥεμφάν.]