תְּרָפִים
tᵉrâphîym · H8655 · Hebrew · proper noun · 15 occurrences
Thing
- Teraphim, household idolIdols14 verses
Meanings
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household idols
A small and portable physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, functioning as an object of non-sanctioned worship or divination
ExamplesGenesis 31:19 Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s.
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlebag, and she sat on them. So Laban searched through all the tent, but did not find them.
Genesis 31:35 And she said to her father, “May my lord not be angry that I cannot stand in your presence, because the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household idols.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָבfather 1
- רָאָהto see 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָבַרto speak, to say 1
What is done to itIt is the object
9 occurrences in 5 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 5
- בָּעַרto burn, to purge 1
- גָּנַבto steal 1
- מָצָאto find 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יֵשׁthere is, there are 1
- אַיִןthere is no, not 1
- מִטָּהcouch 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּצַרto press 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 4 words
- סֶמֶל çemel · H5566 · image
- Both words denote physical cult objects, idols or images used in illicit worship; both are Hebrew terms for forbidden cultic representations and are interchangeable terms for idols and images.
- חַמָּן chammân · H2553 · incense altar
- Both words denote types of idolatrous cultic objects or images used in worship ("idol, image" and "idols, images, teraphim"), and are distinct Hebrew words for similar idolatrous objects.
- פֶּסֶל peçel · H6459 · graven image
- Both lexemes denote cultic or religious images used in worship contexts and are near-synonyms within the semantic field of idolatry, representing distinct Hebrew words for overlapping referents — carved images and household idols.
- פְּסִיל pᵉçîyl · H6456 · graven image
- Both lexemes denote cultic images/idols. They represent distinct Hebrew words for objects of idolatrous worship that can substitute in many contexts (both are "forbidden images"). This is near-synonymy in the idol/image semantic field.
In the other Testament 1 word
- εἴδωλον eídōlon · G1497 · idol, (image), false god
- Greek εἴδωλον renders Hebrew תְּרָפִים in LXX contexts where household idols/images are condemned as objects of illicit worship, both denoting physical cultic representations used in violation of monotheistic prohibitions.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Images001003001001010
- This noun denotes household idols, as in Genesis 31:19's account of Rachel stealing the household idols that belonged to her father Laban.
- Cult Objects001003001001006
- The noun also denotes objects used in illicit worship, as in Judges 17:5's account of Micah making an ephod and household idols and consecrating one of his sons as priest.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8655. teraphim תְּרָפִים noun masculineZec 10:2 plural (= plural of majesty NöZMG xlii…
תְּרָפִים noun masculineZec 10:2
plural (= plural of majesty NöZMG xlii (1888), 476) a kind of idol, object of reverence, and means of divination (√ and etymology-meaning dubious, compare GFMHast. DB TERAPHIM SayZA ii. 195 (citing Neubauer, and Assyrian tarpû, spectre), al. √ רפא, compare רְפָאִים); — always ׳ת: — portable and sometimes small Gen 31:19, 34: Gen 31:35 (called אֱלֹהִים Gen 31:30, all E), but in size and shape like a man 1Sa 19:13, 1Sa 19:16; in household shrine (see also l.c.) Jdg 17:5 (+ אֵפוֺד, compare GFMJu), Jdg 18:14, Jdg 18:17 (both + מַסֵּכָה מֶּסֶל, אֵפוֺד,), compare Jdg 18:20 (omitted מַסֵּכָה), Hos 3:4 (+ וֶבַךְ מַצֵּבָה, ׳א,); condemned 1Sa 15:23; 2Ki 23:24 (+ גִּלֻּלִים); used in divining (by king of Babylonian ), בַּתּ ׳שָׁאַל Eze 21:26 (+ בַּכָּבֵד רָאָח בַּתִצִּים, קִלְקַל); as giving empty oracles Zec 10:2 (|| הַקּוֺסְמִים). — See GFMl.c. NowArchaeology ii. 23 StaBlb. Theol. d. A. T. under the word.
תִּרְצָה see רצה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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