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Lexicon :: Strong's H7503 - rāp̄â

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רָפָה
Transliteration
rāp̄â
Pronunciation
raw-faw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2198

Strong’s Definitions

רָפָה râphâh, raw-faw'; a primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative):—abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See H7495.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x

The KJV translates Strong's H7503 in the following manner: feeble (6x), fail (4x), weaken (4x), go (4x), alone (4x), idle (3x), stay (3x), slack (3x), faint (2x), forsake (2x), abated (1x), cease (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x
The KJV translates Strong's H7503 in the following manner: feeble (6x), fail (4x), weaken (4x), go (4x), alone (4x), idle (3x), stay (3x), slack (3x), faint (2x), forsake (2x), abated (1x), cease (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

  1. to sink, relax, sink down, let drop, be disheartened

    1. (Qal)

      1. to sink down

      2. to sink, drop

      3. to sink, relax, abate

      4. to relax, withdraw

    2. (Niphal) idle (participle)

    3. (Piel) to let drop

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to let drop, abandon, relax, refrain, forsake

      2. to let go

      3. to refrain, let alone

      4. to be quiet

    5. (Hithpael) to show oneself slack

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָפָה râphâh, raw-faw'; a primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative):—abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See H7495.
STRONGS H7503: Abbreviations
† רָפה verb sink, relax (Late Hebrew id., so Aramaic רפא (derived species), Zinjirli רפה Aph`el, bdb095102; Arabic bdb095103 an easy life is perhaps akin); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular Judges 19:9 (yet see below); 3rd person feminine singular רָֽפִ֑תָה Judges 8:3; Jeremiah 49:24, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִרְפֶּה Isaiah 5:24, וַיִּרֶף Exodus 4:26 (see below), etc.; —
1. sink down, of hay in flame Isaiah 5:24; sink, decline, of day Judges 19:9 (si vera lectio; LXX of Lucian (Lag.) κέκλικεν, GFM נָטָה [but how explain the difficult רפה ?]). Usu.
2. sink, drop (of wings, see Pi.), of hands, with מִן Nehemiah 6:9 their hands will drop from the work (in fear); elsewhere absolute figurative = lose heart, energy, 2 Samuel 4:1; Isaiah 13:7; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 50:43; Ezekiel 7:17; Ezekiel 21:12; Zephaniah 3:16; יָרַיִם omitted Jeremiah 49:24.
3. sink, relax, abate, of temper Judges 8:3 (+ מֵעַל person).
4. relax, withdraw, subject י׳, מִן person Exodus 4:26 (J), i.e. let one alone (but read perhaps וַיֶרֶף, see Hiph.).
Niph.. Participle plural נִרְפִּים idle Exodus 5:8, 17 (J).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular רִפָּה Job 12:21; Imperfect 3rd person feminine plural תְּרַפֶּינָה Ezekiel 1:24, 25; Participle מְרַפּא (Ges§ 75 rr) Jeremiah 38:4; plural מְרַפִּים Ezra 4:4; — causative: let wings drop Ezekiel 1:24, 25 (read Qal, כנפיהם subject, Greek Version of the LXX Co Toy Krae and others, who strike out in Ezekiel 1:25); loosen and let drop, girdle of mighty, figurative for weaken them Job 12:21; with accusative hands, figurative for enfeeble, dishearten Jeremiah 38:4; Ezra 4:4.
Hiph. Imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular suffix יַרְפְּךָ Deuteronomy 4:31 +; jussive 2nd person masculine singular תֶּ֫רֶף Joshua 10:6 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular הַרְפֵּה Judges 11:37; 2 Kings 4:27; הֶ֫רֶף Deuteronomy 9:14 +; masculine plural הַרְפּוּ Psalm 46:11; — causative,
1. let drop, the hand 2 Samuel 24:16 = 1 Chronicles 21:15; figurative, + מִן person, = abandon, Joshua 10:6 (JE); perhaps also (יָד omitted) = relax, refrain Exodus 4:26 (reading וַיֶרֶף, see Qal); accusative of thing, = abandon, forsake, Nehemiah 6:3, so (subject י׳) Psalm 138:8; subject י׳, with accusative of person, Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 31:6, 8; Joshua 1:5 (D), 1 Chronicles 28:20.
2. let go, suffix person, Songs 3:4 (opposed to אחז); figurative, accusative (omitted) מוּסָר, Proverbs 4:13 (opposed to החזיק), צְדָקָה Job 27:6 (opposed to id.).
3. refrain, with מִן person, = let one alone Judges 11:37; Deuteronomy 9:14, מִן of anger Psalm 37:8; with ל person 1 Samuel 11:3; 2 Kings 4:27; accusative of person Job 7:19; absolute let alone, i.e. do nothing, be quiet, 1 Samuel 15:16; Psalm 46:11 (compare Weir in Dr1 Samuel 15:16). — Jeremiah 3:22; Job 5:18; Psalm 60:4 see רָפָא.
Hithp. Perfect 2nd person masculine singular הִתְרַפִּיתָ Proverbs 24:10 hast shewn thyself slack; Participle מִתְרַפֶּה Proverbs 18:9 one shewing himself slack, plural מִתְרַפִּים Joshua 18:3. — See also רָפָא heal.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

4:26; 4:26; 4:26; 5:8; 5:17

Deuteronomy

4:31; 4:31; 9:14; 9:14; 31:6; 31:8

Joshua

1:5; 10:6; 10:6; 18:3

Judges

8:3; 8:3; 11:37; 11:37; 19:9; 19:9

1 Samuel

11:3; 15:16; 15:16

2 Samuel

4:1; 24:16

2 Kings

4:27; 4:27

1 Chronicles

21:15; 28:20

Ezra

4:4; 4:4

Nehemiah

6:3; 6:9

Job

5:18; 7:19; 12:21; 12:21; 27:6

Psalms

37:8; 46:11; 46:11; 60:4; 138:8

Proverbs

4:13; 18:9; 24:10

Song of Songs

3:4

Isaiah

5:24; 5:24; 13:7

Jeremiah

3:22; 6:24; 38:4; 38:4; 49:24; 49:24; 50:43

Ezekiel

1:24; 1:24; 1:25; 1:25; 1:25; 7:17; 21:12

Zephaniah

3:16

H7503

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Strong's Number H7503 matches the Hebrew רָפָה (rāp̄â),
which occurs 46 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8 - But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17 - But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6 - Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:8 - It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:5 - No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:3 - So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger[fn] against him subsided when he said this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - So she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:1 - When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God,[fn] strengthen my hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19 - How long will you not look away from me,
nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:21 - He pours contempt on princes
and loosens the belt of the strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 - Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:10 - “Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 138:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:8 - The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9 - Whoever is slack in his work
is a brother to him who destroys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:10 - If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will be as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7 - Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart will melt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - We have heard the report of it;
our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
pain as of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee,
and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 - “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads. When they stood still, they let down their wings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17 - All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,’” declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:16 - On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
let not your hands grow weak.
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