# רָפָא (rafa)

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

Strong’s H7497. 24 Old Testament occurrences.

a giant

King James renderings: giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also H1051 (בֵּית רָפָא).

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rafa-h7497

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/14/5) — And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims…
- [Genesis 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/15/20) — And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- [Deuteronomy 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/11) — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- [Deuteronomy 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/20) — (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
- [Deuteronomy 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/11) — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the chil…
- [Deuteronomy 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/13) — And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all…
- [Joshua 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/4) — And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- [Joshua 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/12) — All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses sm…
- [Joshua 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/8) — And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went u…
- [Joshua 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/15) — And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of th…
- [Joshua 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/16) — And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the gi…
- [2 Samuel 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/18) — The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- [2 Samuel 5:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/22) — And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- [2 Samuel 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/16) — And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being gi…
- [2 Samuel 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/18) — And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which w…
- [2 Samuel 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/20) — And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four…
- [2 Samuel 21:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/22) — These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
- [2 Samuel 23:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/13) — And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines p…
- [1 Chronicles 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/15) — Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the…
- [1 Chronicles 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/14/9) — And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- [1 Chronicles 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/20/4) — And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, tha…
- [1 Chronicles 20:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/20/6) — And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and s…
- [1 Chronicles 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/20/8) — These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
- [Isaiah 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/5) — And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in…