Lexical Summary teraphim: (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol Original Word: תְּרָפִיםTransliteration: teraphim Phonetic Spelling: (ter-aw-feme') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol Meaning: (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol Strong's Concordance idolatry, images, teraphim Plural from rapha'; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol -- idols(-atry), images, teraphim. see HEBREW rapha' Brown-Driver-Briggs H8655. teraphim תְּרָפִים noun masculineZechariah 10:2 plural (= plural of majesty NöZMG xlii (1888), 476) a kind of idol, object of reverence, and means of divination (√ and etymology-meaning dubious, compare GFMHast. DB TERAPHIM SayZA ii. 195 (citing Neubauer, and Assyrian tarpû, spectre), al. √ רפא, compare רְפָאִים); — always ׳ת: — portable and sometimes small Genesis 31:19, 34: 31:35 (called אֱלֹהִים 31:30, all E), but in size and shape like a man 1 Samuel 19:13, 16; in household shrine (see also l.c.) Judges 17:5 (+ אֵפוֺד, compare GFMJu), 18:14, 17 (both + מַסֵּכָה מֶּסֶל, אֵפוֺד,), compare 18:20 (omitted מַסֵּכָה), Hosea 3:4 (+ וֶבַךְ מַצֵּבָה, ׳א,); condemned 1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Kings 23:24 (+ גִּלֻּלִים); used in divining (by king of Babylonian ), בַּתּ ׳שָׁאַל Ezekiel 21:26 (+ בַּכָּבֵד רָאָח בַּתִצִּים, קִלְקַל); as giving empty oracles Zechariah 10:2 ("" הַקּוֺסְמִים). — See GFMl.c. NowArchaeology ii. 23 StaBlb. Theol. d. A. T. under the word. תִּרְצָה see רצה. |
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