Rᵉphâyâh — H7509

Definition

masculine proper noun

Rephajah, the name of five Israelites

1. Rephaiah = "healed of Jehovah"
2. a descendant of Zerubbabel and David
3. a Simeonite chief in the reign of Hezekiah
4. son of Tola and grandson of Issachar
5. son of Binea and a descendant of Saul
6. son of Hur and a ruler of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

Usually translated as

Rephaiah

Origin

from H7495 and H3050; Jah has cured

• Derived from Râphâʼ (H7495)
• Derived from Yâhh (H3050)

Greek equivalents

• Rhēsá (G4488)

Occurrences

Rᵉphâyâh occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (4), Nehemiah (1)

• 1 Chronicles 3:21 — And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah (רְפָיָה֙), the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
• 1 Chronicles 4:42 — And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah (וּרְפָיָ֧ה), and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
• 1 Chronicles 7:2 — And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah (וּרְפָיָ֡ה), and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
• 1 Chronicles 9:43 — And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah (וּרְפָיָ֥ה) his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
• Nehemiah 3:9 — And next unto them repaired Rephaiah (רְפָיָ֣ה) the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.