# H7496 רָפָא

רָפָא (râphâʼ), Strong’s H7496: properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only) KJV: dead, deceased.. Occurs 8 times.

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*râphâʼ* — properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)

KJV: dead, deceased.

Built from [רָפָא râphâʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H7495) (to mend) + [רָפָה râphâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H7503) (to slacken)

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רְפָאִים n.m. pl. shades, ghosts

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 14:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/14?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/26?v=14) — The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused…
- [Isaiah 26:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/88?v=11) — Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
- [Proverbs 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/2?v=18) — for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
- [Proverbs 9:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=18) — But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- [Proverbs 21:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=16) — The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
- [Job 26:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/26?v=5) — “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.