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# רָפַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7515

**stamp** — 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

stamp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7515/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָפַס: vb. stamp, tread, foul by stamping, treading [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7515/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. stamp, tread, foul by stamping, treading (NH רָפַס tread, Syriac ܪܦܰܣ; cf. Arabic رَفَسَ kick);— Impf. 2 ms. וַתִּרְפֹּס Ez 32:2, c. acc. rivers; 2 mpl. תִּרְפּשׁ֑וּן 34:18. Pt. מַעְיָן נִרְפָּשׂ Pr 25:26 a fountain befouled. (stamp oneself down, then fig.), Imv. ms. הִתְרַפֵּס Pr 6:3 humble thyself, become a suppliant (RVm Toy bestir thyself, as conject.); Pt. מִתְרַפֵּס בְּרַצֵּי כָ֑סֶף ψ 68:31 stamping, trampling, down pieces of silver (?), obscure and prob. crpt., see conjj. in Bae al. and פַּתְרֹס supr., ad fin.

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fouled (1); humble yourself (1); trampling (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.26/#tree)

מַעְיָ֣ן נִ֭רְפָּשׂ וּמָק֣וֹר מָשְׁחָ֑ת צַ֝דִּ֗יק מָ֣ט לִפְנֵֽי־רָשָֽׁע׃

*Word for word:* a.spring fouled and a.fountain ruined a.righteous.\[person\] \[who\].sways before a.wicked.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

[Psalms 68:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.31/#tree)

גְּעַ֨ר חַיַּ֪ת קָנֶ֡ה עֲדַ֤ת אַבִּירִ֨ים ׀ בְּעֶגְלֵ֬י עַמִּ֗ים מִתְרַפֵּ֥ס בְּרַצֵּי־כָ֑סֶף בִּזַּ֥ר עַ֝מִּ֗ים קְרָב֥וֹת יֶחְפָּֽצוּ׃

*Word for word:* rebuke \[the\].animal\[s\] of.\[the\].reed\[s\] a.herd of.mighty.\[bulls\] with calves of.peoples trampling on pieces of.silver he.has.scattered peoples \[which\].wars they.delight.in

*JPS 1917:* Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, every one submitting himself with pieces of silver; He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7515.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7515/): 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).