# רָפָה (rafah) Israeli respelling: ra-fah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H7503. 45 Old Testament occurrences. to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative) King James renderings: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See H7495 (רָפָא). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rafah-h7503 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 4:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/26) — So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. - [Exodus 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/8) — And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle;… - [Exodus 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/17) — But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD. - [Deuteronomy 4:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/31) — (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he s… - [Deuteronomy 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/14) — Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater tha… - [Deuteronomy 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/6) — Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail t… - [Deuteronomy 31:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/8) — And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be di… - [Joshua 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/1/5) — There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail… - [Joshua 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/6) — And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save… - [Joshua 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/3) — And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given… - [Judges 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/3) — God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger w… - [Judges 11:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/37) — And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bew… - [Judges 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/9) — And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold,… - [1 Samuel 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/11/3) — And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, i… - [1 Samuel 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/16) — Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. - [2 Samuel 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/1) — And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. - [2 Samuel 24:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/16) — And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destr… - [2 Kings 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/27) — And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God sa… - [1 Chronicles 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/15) — And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to… - [1 Chronicles 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/20) — And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will… - [2 Chronicles 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/7) — Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded. - [Ezra 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/4) — Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, - [Nehemiah 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/3) — And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it,… - [Nehemiah 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/9) — For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my… - [Job 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/19) — How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? - [Job 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/21) — He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. - [Job 27:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/6) — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. - [Psalms 37:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/8) — Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. - [Psalms 46:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/46/10) — Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. - [Psalms 138:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/138/8) — The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. - [Proverbs 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/13) — Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. - [Proverbs 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/9) — He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. - [Proverbs 24:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/10) — If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. - [Song of Solomon 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/4) — It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought… - [Isaiah 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/24) — Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom sha… - [Isaiah 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/7) — Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt: - [Jeremiah 6:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/24) — We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. - [Jeremiah 38:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/4) — Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war… - [Jeremiah 49:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/24) — Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in trava… - [Jeremiah 50:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/43) — The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. - [Ezekiel 1:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/24) — And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as… - [Ezekiel 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/25) — And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. - [Ezekiel 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/17) — All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. - [Ezekiel 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/7) — And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every hea… - [Zephaniah 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/16) — In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.