# H8655 תְּרָפִים

תְּרָפִים (tᵉrâphîym), Strong’s H8655: Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol KJV: idols(-atry), images, teraphim.. Occurs 15 times.

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*tᵉrâphîym* — Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol

KJV: idols(-atry), images, teraphim.

Derived from [רָפָא râphâʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H7495) (to mend)

Occurs 15 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תְּרָפִים n.m. pl. a kind of idol, obj. of reverence, and means of divination (√ and etymol.-mng. dub.)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=19) — Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
- [Genesis 31:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=34) — Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but…
- [Genesis 31:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=35) — She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He…
- [Judges 17:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/17?v=5) — The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his…
- [Judges 18:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=14) — Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there…
- [Judges 18:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=17) — The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the…
- [Judges 18:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=18) — When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the…
- [Judges 18:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=20) — The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
- [1 Samuel 15:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=23) — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the…
- [1 Samuel 19:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=13) — Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with…