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# רָפָה

Biblical Hebrew

**giant** — used 5 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

giant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָפָה³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** II. רָפָא as n.pr.m., always c. art. Hā-Rāphā (perhaps der. from n.pr.gent. II. רְפָאִים, q.v.);—הָֽרָפָה 2 S 21:16, 18, c. prep. לְהָ׳ v 20:22 = לְהָרָפָא 1 Ch 20:6, 8;—only as parent, בִּילִידֵי הָר׳ 2 S 21:16, 18 (= מִילִידֵי הָֽרְפָאִים 1 Ch 20:4); יֻלַּד לְהָר׳ v 20, 22 ‖ I Ch 20:6, 8.—1. רָפָה v. sub רָפָא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Raphah (3); the Raphah (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.37/#tree)

וּמוֹצָ֖א הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־בִּנְעָ֑א רָפָ֥ה בְנ֛וֹ אֶלְעָשָׂ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ אָצֵ֥ל בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and Moza he.fathered (et) Binea Raphah son \[was\].his Eleasah son \[was\].his Azel son \[was\].his

*JPS 1917:* and Moza begot Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

[2 Samuel 21:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.22/#tree)

אֶת־אַרְבַּ֥עַת אֵ֛לֶּה יֻלְּד֥וּ לְהָרָפָ֖ה בְּגַ֑ת וַיִּפְּל֥וּ בְיַד־דָּוִ֖ד וּבְיַ֥ד עֲבָדָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* (et) four these they.were.born to the Raphah in Gath and they.fell by the.hand of.David and by the.hand his.servants his

*JPS 1917:* These four were born to 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/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/): 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).