רְפָאִים
ra.pah
“shade”
Definition
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
from H7495 (רָפָא) in the sense of H7503 (רָפָה);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
רְפָאִים appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
Sheol beneath is eagerto meet you upon your arrival.It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth.It makes all the kings of the nationsrise from their thrones.
The dead will not live;the departed spirits will not rise.Therefore You have punished and destroyed them;You have wiped out all memory of them.
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!For your dew is like the dew of the morning,and the earth will bring forth her dead.
The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
For her house sinks down to death,and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.