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Lexicon :: Strong's H8655 - tᵊrāp̄îm

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תְּרָפִים
Transliteration
tᵊrāp̄îm
Pronunciation
ter-aw-feme'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2545

Strong’s Definitions

תְּרָפִים tᵉrâphîym, ter-aw-feme'; plural from H7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol:—idols(-atry), images, teraphim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H8655 in the following manner: image (7x), teraphim (6x), idol (1x), idolatry (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H8655 in the following manner: image (7x), teraphim (6x), idol (1x), idolatry (1x).

  1. idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol

    1. a kind of idol used in household shrine or worship

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תְּרָפִים tᵉrâphîym, ter-aw-feme'; plural from H7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol:—idols(-atry), images, teraphim.
STRONGS H8655: Abbreviations
† תְּרָפִים noun masculineZechariah 10:2 plural (= plural of majesty NöZMG xlii (1888), 476) a kind of idol, object of reverence, and means of divination (√ and etymology-meaning dubious, compare GFMHast. DB TERAPHIM SayZA ii. 195 (citing Neubauer, and Assyrian tarpû, spectre), al. √ רפא, compare רְפָאִים); — always ת׳ : — portable and sometimes small Genesis 31:19, 34: Genesis 31:35 (called אֱלֹהִים Genesis 31:30, all E), but in size and shape like a man 1 Samuel 19:13, 16; in household shrine (see also l.c.) Judges 17:5 (+ אֵפוֺד, compare GFMJu), Judges 18:14, 17 (both + אֵפוֺד, פֶּסֶל, מַסֵּכָה), compare Judges 18:20 (omitted מַסֵּכָה), Hosea 3:4 (+ א׳, מַצֵּבָה, וֶבַךְ); condemned 1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Kings 23:24 (+ גִּלֻּלִים); used in divining (by king of Babylonian), שָׁאַל בַּתּ׳ Ezekiel 21:26 (+ קִלְקַל בַּתִצִּים, רָאָח בַּכָּבֵד); as giving empty oracles Zechariah 10:2 (|| הַקּוֺסְמִים). — See GFMl.c. NowArchaeology ii. 23 StaBlb. Theol. d. A. T. under the word.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:19; 31:30; 31:34; 31:35

Judges

17:5; 18:14; 18:17; 18:20

1 Samuel

15:23; 19:13; 19:16

2 Kings

23:24

Ezekiel

21:26

Hosea

3:4

Zechariah

10:2; 10:2

H8655

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8655 matches the Hebrew תְּרָפִים (tᵊrāp̄îm),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:5 - And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then answered the five men that went to explore the country of Laish, and said to their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - And the five men that went to explore the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - And these went into Micah's house, and brought the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest to them, What do ye?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:20 - And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:13 - And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:16 - And when the messengers had come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:4 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled because there was no shepherd.
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