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# רְפִידִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7508

**Rephidim** — 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

Rephidim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7508/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְפִידִים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7508/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. station of Isr. at Exodus (in P), Ex 17:1; 19:2; רְפִידִם 17:8 Nu 33:14, 15; Ραφιδειν.—אַרְפַּד v. p. 75.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rephidim (5).

## In the verses

[Exodus 17:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.8/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֖א עֲמָלֵ֑ק וַיִּלָּ֥חֶם עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בִּרְפִידִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.came Amalek and it.joined.battle with Israel at Rephidim

*JPS 1917:* Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

[Numbers 33:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.15/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵרְפִידִ֑ם וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Rephidim and they.encamped in the.wilderness of.Sinai

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7508.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7508/): 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).