Word

רָפָא

Râphâʼ · H7498 · Hebrew · proper noun · 8 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Rephaiahdescendant of Saul2 verses
Raphason of Benjamin2 verses

Meanings

Raphah

Man; ancestor of a tribe of giants

Examples
1 Chronicles 20:6 Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants.
1 Chronicles 20:8 These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
Rapha

Man; son of Benjamin

Examples
1 Chronicles 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חֲמִישִׁיfifth 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 8

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

יָלִידdescendant 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: 2 Samuel 21:16, 18, 20, and 22 all describe warriors as "descendants of the giant" (Rapha), and 1 Chronicles 8:2 names "Rapha the fifth" among Benjamin's sons, directly attesting this as a personal name.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7498. Rapha ' I. רָפָא proper name, masculine in Benjamin, 1Ch 8:2, Ραφη[α]. — II. רָפָא…

H7498. Rapha
' I. רָפָא proper name, masculine in Benjamin, 1Ch 8:2, Ραφη[α]. —
II. רָפָא see רפה. — See also ר ׳בֵּית p. 112.
I. רָפָה proper name, masculine in Saul's line 1Ch 8:37, Ραφαι(α), ᵐ5L Αραχα; see רְפָיָה. — II. ׳ר see רפה.
II. רָפָה, II. רָפָא as proper name, masculine, always with article H¹-R¹ph¹ (perhaps derived from proper name, of a people II. רְפָאִים, q. v.); — הָֽרפָה 2Sa 21:16, 2Sa 21:18, with preposition ׳לְהָ 2Sa 21:20. 22 = לְהָרָפָא 1Ch 20:6, 1Ch 20:8; — only as parent, הָר ׳בִּילִידֵי 2Sa 21:16, 2Sa 21:18 (= הָֽרְפָאִים מִילִירֵי 1Ch 20:4); לְהָר ׳יֻלַּד 1 Chronicles 20:20. 22 || 1Ch 20:6, 1Ch 20:8. — I.רָפָה see below רפָא.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People3 occurrences

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.

Sources

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