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Ῥεμφάν

Rhemphán · G4481 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Rephan

    A pagan God

    Examples

    Acts 7:43 ‘YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP. I ALSO WILL DEPORT YOU BEYOND BABYLON.’

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Rephan93.308
The proper name identifies a star-deity worshiped idolatrously by Israel in the wilderness. Stephen recounts before the Sanhedrin, quoting the prophets: “YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP” (Acts 7:43).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (R G), or Ρ᾽εφαν (L Tr), or Ρ᾽ομφαν (T) (or Ρ᾽ομφα WH, see their Appendix on Acts as…
(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 ).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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