Râphâʼ — H7497

Definition

proper noun

a giant

1. giants, Rephaim
1. old tribe of giants

Usually translated as

Rephaim, giant, Rephaims, Rapha

Origin

or râphâh; from H7495 in the sense of invigorating

• Derived from Râphâʼ (H7495)

Greek equivalents

• iatrós (G2395)

Occurrences

Râphâʼ occurs 21 times in 20 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (5), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Chronicles (5), Isaiah (1)

• Genesis 14:5 — And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims (רְפָאִים֙) in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
• Genesis 15:20 — And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims (הָרְפָאִֽים),
• Deuteronomy 2:11 — Which also were accounted giants (רְפָאִ֛ים), as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
• Deuteronomy 2:20 — (That also was accounted a land of giants (רְפָאִ֥ים): giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
• Deuteronomy 2:20 — (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants (רְפָאִ֤ים) dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
• Deuteronomy 3:11 — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants (הָרְפָאִים֒); behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
• Deuteronomy 3:13 — And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants (רְפָאִֽים).
• Joshua 12:4 — And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants (הָרְפָאִ֑ים), that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
• Joshua 13:12 — All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants (הָרְפָאִ֔ים): for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
• Joshua 15:8 — And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants (רְפָאִ֖ים) northward:
• Joshua 17:15 — And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants (וְהָֽרְפָאִ֑ים), if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
• Joshua 18:16 — And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants (רְפָאִ֖ים) on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,
• 2 Samuel 5:18 — The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim (רְפָאִֽים).
• 2 Samuel 5:22 — And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim (רְפָאִֽים).
• 2 Samuel 23:13 — And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim (רְפָאִֽים).
• 1 Chronicles 11:15 — Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim (רְפָאִֽים).
• 1 Chronicles 14:9 — And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim (רְפָאִֽים).
• 1 Chronicles 20:4 — And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant (הָרְפָאִ֖ים): and they were subdued.
• 1 Chronicles 20:6 — And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant (לְהָרָפָֽא).
• 1 Chronicles 20:8 — These were born unto the giant (לְהָרָפָ֖א) in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
• Isaiah 17:5 — And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim (רְפָאִֽים).