Usually translated as
feeble, fail, let alone, idle, slack, stay, faint, forsake, cease, leave, be still, be slothful, weak, abate, consume, draw, be, weaken
Occurrences
Râphâh occurs 46 times in 45 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (3), Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (3), Judges (3), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (2), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2), Job (3), Psalms (3), Proverbs (3), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (4), Zephaniah (1)
- Exodus 4:26 — So he let him go (וַיִּ֖רֶף): then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
- Exodus 5:8 — And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle (נִרְפִּ֣ים); therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Exodus 5:17 — But he said, Ye are idle (נִרְפִּ֥ים), ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
- Exodus 5:17 — But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle (נִרְפִּ֑ים): therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 4:31 — (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake (יַרְפְּךָ֖) thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
- Deuteronomy 9:14 — Let me alone (הֶ֤רֶף), that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
- Deuteronomy 31:6 — Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail (יַרְפְּךָ֖) thee, nor forsake thee.
- Deuteronomy 31:8 — And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail (יַרְפְּךָ֖) thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
- Joshua 1:5 — There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail (אַרְפְּךָ֖) thee, nor forsake thee.
- Joshua 10:6 — And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack (תֶּ֥רֶף) not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
- Joshua 18:3 — And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack (מִתְרַפִּ֔ים) to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
- Judges 8:3 — God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated (רָפְתָ֤ה) toward him, when he had said that.
- Judges 11:37 — And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone (הַרְפֵּ֨ה) two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
- Judges 19:9 — And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth (רָפָ֨ה) toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
- 1 Samuel 11:3 — And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite (הֶ֤רֶף), that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
- 1 Samuel 15:16 — Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay (הֶ֚רֶף), and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
- 2 Samuel 4:1 — And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble (וַיִּרְפּ֖וּ), and all the Israelites were troubled.
- 2 Samuel 24:16 — And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay (הֶ֣רֶף) now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 2 Kings 4:27 — And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone (הַרְפֵּֽה); for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15 — And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay (הֶ֣רֶף) now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 28:20 — And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail (יַרְפְּךָ֙) thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 15:7 — Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak (יִרְפּ֖וּ): for your work shall be rewarded.
- Ezra 4:4 — Then the people of the land weakened (מְרַפִּ֖ים) the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
- Nehemiah 6:3 — And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave (אַרְפֶּ֔הָ) it, and come down to you?
- Nehemiah 6:9 — For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened (יִרְפּ֧וּ) from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
- Job 7:19 — How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone (תַ֝רְפֵּ֗נִי) till I swallow down my spittle?
- Job 12:21 — He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth (רִפָּֽה) the strength of the mighty.
- Job 27:6 — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go (אַרְפֶּ֑הָ): my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- Psalms 37:8 — Cease (הֶ֣רֶף) from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
- Psalms 46:10 — Be still (הַרְפּ֣וּ), and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
- Psalms 138:8 — The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake (תֶּֽרֶף) not the works of thine own hands.
- Proverbs 4:13 — Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go (תֶּ֑רֶף): keep her; for she is thy life.
- Proverbs 18:9 — He also that is slothful (מִתְרַפֶּ֣ה) in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
- Proverbs 24:10 — If thou faint (הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָ) in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- Song of Songs 3:4 — It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go (אַרְפֶּ֔נּוּ), until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
- Isaiah 5:24 — Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth (יִרְפֶּ֔ה) the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 13:7 — Therefore shall all hands be faint (תִּרְפֶּ֑ינָה), and every man’s heart shall melt:
- Jeremiah 6:24 — We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble (רָפ֣וּ): anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 38:4 — Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth (מְרַפֵּ֡א) the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
- Jeremiah 49:24 — Damascus is waxed feeble (רָפְתָ֥ה), and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 50:43 — The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble (וְרָפ֣וּ): anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Ezekiel 1:24 — And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down (תְּרַפֶּ֥ינָה) their wings.
- Ezekiel 1:25 — And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down (תְּרַפֶּ֥ינָה) their wings.
- Ezekiel 7:17 — All hands shall be feeble (תִּרְפֶּ֑ינָה), and all knees shall be weak as water.
- Ezekiel 21:7 — And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble (וְרָפ֨וּ), and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
- Zephaniah 3:16 — In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack (יִרְפּ֥וּ).