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# רָפָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7498

**Rapha** — used 3 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

Rapha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7498/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָפָא²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7498/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Benj., 1 Ch 8:2, Ραφη\[α\].—II. רָפָא v. רפה.—Vid. also בֵּית ר׳ p. 112.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rapha (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.2/#tree)

נוֹחָה֙ הָֽרְבִיעִ֔י וְרָפָ֖א הַחֲמִישִֽׁי׃ס

*Word for word:* Nohah the fourth and Rapha the fifth

*JPS 1917:* Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

[1 Chronicles 20:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.8/#tree)

אֵ֛ל נוּלְּד֥וּ לְהָרָפָ֖א בְּגַ֑ת וַיִּפְּל֥וּ בְיַד־דָּוִ֖יד וּבְיַד־עֲבָדָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* these they.were.born to the Rapha in Gath and they.fell by the.hand of.David and by the.hand his.servants his

*JPS 1917:* These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7498.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7498/): 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).