# רָפָא (rafa)

Israeli respelling: ra-fa. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7496. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)

King James renderings: dead, deceased.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rafa-h7496

## Occurrences

- [Job 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/5) — Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
- [Psalms 88:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/10) — Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
- [Proverbs 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/18) — For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
- [Proverbs 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/18) — But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
- [Proverbs 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/16) — The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
- [Isaiah 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/9) — Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it…
- [Isaiah 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/14) — They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all th…
- [Isaiah 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/19) — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of h…