רָפֶה
rafe · weak, slack
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7504 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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rafe (רָפֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weak, slack”.
How to say it
ra·fe
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
- Without strength; hands that hang.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- weak ×2
- drooping ×1
- slack ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 13:18
and see the land, what it is like, and the people who live in it, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,
- 2 Samuel 17:2
I will come upon him while he is weary and weak of hands, and I will make him tremble, and all the people who are with him will flee, and I will strike the king alone.
- Job 4:3
Look, you have corrected many, and slack hands you have strengthened.
- Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the drooping hands, and the stumbling knees make firm.