רָפָא
rafa · shades, the dead
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7496 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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rafa (רָפָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shades, the dead”.
The shades: the dead who are in Sheol. Only plural. It is a different word, though spelled the same, from the one that names the ancient people of the Rephaim.
How to say it
ra·fa
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The dead who are in Sheol, without strength.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 26:5
The shades writhe beneath the waters and their inhabitants.
- Psalms 88:10
Will you do wonders for the dead? Or will the shades rise and give you thanks? Selah.
- Proverbs 2:18
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the shades.
- Proverbs 9:18
But he does not know that the shades are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 21:16
A man who wanders from the way of prudence will rest in the assembly of the shades.
- Isaiah 14:9
Sheol below is stirred up for you to meet your coming; it rouses for you the shades, all the male goats of the earth; it makes rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isaiah 26:14
The dead will not live; shades will not rise; therefore you have punished and destroyed them, and you have made all remembrance of them perish.
- Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live; my corpse, they will rise. Awake and shout for joy, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will cause to fall the shades.