רִיפָהrîyphâh

dubious; some grain or fruit (2 Samuel 17:19; Proverbs 27:22)

Pronunciation: ree-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7383

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 17:19 The man’s wife put a cloth over the top of the well and scattered grain on it to dry in the sun; so no one suspected they were there.
  • Proverbs 27:22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).