The meaning of “תְּרָפִים”
Understanding tᵉrâphîym reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
plural from רָפָא; a healer idols(-atry), images, teraphim. - Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol 1) idolatry, i...
תְּרָפִים
plural from רָפָא; a healer idols(-atry), images, teraphim. - Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol 1a) a kind of idol used in household shrine or worship
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 31:34 | “Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.” Word: תְּרָפִים (tᵉrâphîym) | |
| Judges 18:17 | “And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.” Word: תְּרָפִים (tᵉrâphîym) | |
| 1 Samuel 19:13 | “And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.” Word: תְּרָפִים (tᵉrâphîym) | |
| 2 Kings 23:24 | “Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.” Word: תְּרָפִים (tᵉrâphîym) | |
| Ezekiel 21:21 | “For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.” Word: תְּרָפִים (tᵉrâphîym) |
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