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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 - Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols 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 household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them.

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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 before you, for the manner of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the household idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:5 - The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household idols;[fn] and he 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 the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brethren, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod, household idols, a carved image, and a molded image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up. Entering there, they took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image. The priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who were armed with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - When these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:20 - So the priest’s heart was glad; and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and took his place among 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 you have rejected the word of the LORD,
He also has rejected you 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, put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:16 - And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, 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 stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at 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 king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the idols[fn] speak delusion;
The diviners envision lies,
And tell false dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wend their way like sheep;
They are in trouble because there is no shepherd.
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