STRONGS NUMBER H7496


Word Summary
rapha: shades, ghosts
Original Word: רָפָא
Transliteration: 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. רְפָאִיםnoun 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 ׳הָרJob 26:5, elsewhere nearly = proper name: ׳רIsaiah 14:9 (in Sh®°ôl), 26:4 ("" מֵתִים‎), Psalm 88:11 ("" id.), Proverbs 2:18 ("" מָוֶת‎), 9:18 (in שְׁאוֺל עִמְקֵי‎), רְפָאִים קְהַל21:16; of righteous Israel Isaiah 26:19 earth shall cast forth ׳ר‎ ("" מֵתֶיךָ‎).