H7496 רָפָא
râphâʼ — properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
KJV: dead, deceased.
Built from רָפָא râphâʼ (to mend) + רָפָה râphâh (to slacken)
Occurs 8 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רְפָאִים n.m. pl. shades, ghosts
Where it occurs
- Isaiah 14:9 — Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the…
- Isaiah 26:14 — The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused…
- Isaiah 26:19 — Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like…
- Psalms 88:11 — Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
- Proverbs 2:18 — for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
- Proverbs 9:18 — But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 21:16 — The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
- Job 26:5 — “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.