# H7503 רָפָה

רָפָה (râphâh), Strong’s H7503: to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative) KJV: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble…. Occurs 46 times.

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*râphâh* — to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)

KJV: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble…

Occurs 46 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רָפָה vb. sink, relax
- Qal
- 1 sink down
- 2 sink, drop
- 3 sink, relax, abate
- 4 relax, withdraw
- Niph. idle
- Pi. causat.: let wings drop
- Hiph. causat.
- 1 let drop
- 2 let go
- 3 refrain
- Hithp. hast shewn thyself slack

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 4:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=26) — So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
- [Exodus 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=8) — You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for…
- [Exodus 5:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=17) — But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
- [Deuteronomy 4:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=31) — For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers…
- [Deuteronomy 9:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/9?v=14) — Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation…
- [Deuteronomy 31:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=6) — Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He…
- [Deuteronomy 31:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=8) — The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid…
- [Joshua 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/1?v=5) — No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will…
- [Joshua 10:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=6) — The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and…
- [Joshua 18:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=3) — Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God…