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# תְּרָפִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8655

**Teraphim** — used 15 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

Teraphim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8655/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּרָפִים: n.m. pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8655/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Zc 10:2 pl. (= pl. majest. NöZMG xlii (1888), 476) a kind of idol, obj. of reverence, and means of divination (√ and etymol.-meaning dub., cf.GFMHast. DB Teraphim SayZA ii. 195 (citing Neubauer, and Assyrian tarpû, spectre), al. √ רפא, cf.רְפָאִים);—always ת׳:—portable and sometimes small Gn 31:19, 34, 35 (called אֱלֹהִים v 30, all E), but in size and shape like a man 1 S 19:13, 16; in household shrine (v. also l.c.) Ju 17:5 (+ אֵפוֹד, cf.GFM Ju), 18:14, 17, 18 (all + אֵפוֹד, פֶּסֶל, מַסֵּכָה), cf.v 20 (om. מַסֵּכָה), Ho 3:4 (+ א׳, מַצֵּבָה, זֶבַח); condemned 1 S 15:23; 2 K 23:24 (+ גִּלֻּלִים); used in divining (by king of Bab.), שָׁאַל בַּתּ׳ Ez 21:26 (+ קִלְקַל בַּחִצִּים, רָאָה בַּכָּבֵד); as giving empty oracles Zc 10:2 (‖ הַקּוֹסְמִים.—Vid. GFMl.c. NowArch. ii. 23 StaBib. Theol. d. A.T. s.v..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: teraphim (15).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 19:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.16/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים וְהִנֵּ֥ה הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֶל־הַמִּטָּ֑ה וּכְבִ֥יר הָעִזִּ֖ים מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.came the messengers and there! the teraphim \[was\].to the bed and the.quilt of.(the) goat.hair(s) place.of.its.head \[was\].the

*JPS 1917:* And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof.

[Genesis 31:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.19/#tree)

וְלָבָ֣ן הָלַ֔ךְ לִגְזֹ֖ז אֶת־צֹאנ֑וֹ וַתִּגְנֹ֣ב רָחֵ֔ל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְאָבִֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and Laban he.had.gone to shear (et) sheep his and she.stole Rachel (et) the teraphim which \[belonged\].to father her

*JPS 1917:* Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8655.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8655/): 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).