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Lexicon :: Strong's H7503 - rāp̄â

Aa
רָפָה
Transliteration
rāp̄â
Pronunciation
raw-faw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

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.
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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 BoxExo 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8 - But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17 - But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6 - Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:8 - It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:5 - While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:3 - Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - Then the responsible men of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days, so that we may send men to every part of Israel: and then, if no one comes to our help, we will come out to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, Say no more! Let me give you word of what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:1 - And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19 - How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:21 - He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:8 - Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:10 - Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:8 - The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9 - He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:10 - If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7 - For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 - The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - And there was a voice from the top of the arch which was over their heads: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17 - All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:16 - In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.
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