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# רְפָאִים

Biblical Hebrew

**Rephaim** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Rephaim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b8_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְפָאִים³: n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b8_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. old race of giants (perhaps = I. ר׳, as extinct and powerless; v. especially WRS in Dr Dt 2:11; or as shadowy, vaguely known, SchwallyZAW xviii (1896), 127 ff. v. also Stal.c.);—ancient inhab. of Canaan \[W. of Jordan?\], Gn 15:20; Jos 17:15 (JE), cf. 1 Ch 20:4 (v. II. רָפָה supr.); hence עֵמֶק ר׳, plain S. of Jerus. 2 S 5:18, 22; 23:13; 1 Ch 11:15; 14:9; Is 17:5; Jos 15:8; 18:16 (P); ר׳ E. of Jordan Dt 2:11 (‖ עֲנָקִים; tall, cf. v 10), v 20 (‖ id.; tall; = Zamzummim); in Bashan, Gn 14:5, Og the last of them Dt 3:11 (of huge size), Jos 12:4; 13:12 (D); אֶרֶץ ר׳ Dt 2:20; 3:13. 𝔊 Ραφαειν\[μ\]; οἱ γίγαντες Gn 14:5 + 4 times; τῶν Τιτάνων 2 S 5:18, 22 + (𝔊L) 23:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Rephaim (8).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 5:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.18/#tree)

וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בָּ֑אוּ וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ בְּעֵ֥מֶק רְפָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] Philistines they.had.come and they.had.spread.out in the.valley of.Rephaim

*JPS 1917:* Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

[1 Chronicles 14:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.9/#tree)

וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בָּ֑אוּ וַֽיִּפְשְׁט֖וּ בְּעֵ֥מֶק רְפָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] Philistines they.had.come and they.had.made.a.raid in the.valley of.Rephaim

*JPS 1917:* Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b8_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e4_5b8_5d0_5b4_5d9_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).