{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7496",
  "lemma": "רָפָא",
  "transliteration": "râphâʼ",
  "definition": "properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)",
  "kjv": "dead, deceased.",
  "occurrences": 8,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H7495",
      "lemma": "רָפָא",
      "transliteration": "râphâʼ",
      "meaning": "to mend",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H7495"
    },
    {
      "id": "H7503",
      "lemma": "רָפָה",
      "transliteration": "râphâh",
      "meaning": "to slacken",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H7503"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "רְפָאִים n.m. pl. shades, ghosts"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 14:9",
      "text": "Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/14?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 26:14",
      "text": "The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/26?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 26:19",
      "text": "Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/26?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 88:11",
      "text": "Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/88?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 2:18",
      "text": "for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/2?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 9:18",
      "text": "But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 21:16",
      "text": "The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 26:5",
      "text": "“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/26?v=5"
    }
  ],
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