King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7496
Transliteration: rapha
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: shades, ghosts
Meaning: shades, ghosts
Word Summary
rapha: shades, ghosts
Original Word: רָפָאTransliteration: rapha
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: shades, ghosts
Meaning: shades, ghosts
Strong's Concordance
dead, deceased From rapha' in the sense of raphah; properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only) -- dead, deceased.
see HEBREW rapha'
see HEBREW raphah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7496. rapha
I, II. רְפָאִים see below רפה.
I. רְפָאִים noun masculineJob 26:5
plural shades, ghosts (by most connected with above √, as sunken, powerless, ones, StaG. i.420; Phoenician רפאם); — Wisdom Literature and late, name of dead in She'ôl, with article ׳הָר Job 26:5, elsewhere nearly = proper name: ׳ר Isaiah 14:9 (in Sh®°ôl), 26:4 ("" מֵתִים), Psalm 88:11 ("" id.), Proverbs 2:18 ("" מָוֶת), 9:18 (in שְׁאוֺל עִמְקֵי), רְפָאִים קְהַל 21:16; of righteous Israel Isaiah 26:19 earth shall cast forth ׳ר ("" מֵתֶיךָ).