רָפָאrâphâʼ
proper name [of a people]: old race of giants (Deuteronomy 2:11; Genesis 15:20; Joshua 17:15; 1 Chronicles 20:4; 2 Samuel 5:18)
Pronunciation: raw-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7497
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:5 One year later Kedorlaomer and his allies arrived and defeated the Rephaites at Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites at Ham, the Emites at Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- Genesis 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
- Deuteronomy 2:11 Both the Emites and the Anakites are also known as the Rephaites, though the Moabites call them Emites.
- Deuteronomy 2:20 (That area was once considered the land of the Rephaites, who had lived there, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.
- Deuteronomy 3:11 (King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
- Deuteronomy 3:13 Then I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan—Og’s former kingdom—to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This entire Argob region of Bashan used to be known as the land of the Rephaites.
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).