# תְּרָפִים (terafim)

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

Strong’s H8655. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol

King James renderings: idols(-atry), images, teraphim.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/terafim-h8655

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/19) — And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
- [Genesis 31:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/34) — Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them…
- [Genesis 31:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/35) — And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he sear…
- [Judges 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/17/5) — And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
- [Judges 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/14) — Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these house…
- [Judges 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/17) — And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, an…
- [Judges 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/18) — And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest un…
- [Judges 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/20) — And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
- [1 Samuel 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/23) — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, h…
- [1 Samuel 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/13) — And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
- [1 Samuel 19:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/16) — And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
- [2 Kings 23:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/24) — Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the…
- [Ezekiel 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/21) — For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he cons…
- [Hosea 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/3/4) — For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and w…
- [Zechariah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/2) — For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went t…