Topic
Rephaim
30 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Genesis 14:5Easton · ISBE · Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
- Deuteronomy 2:11Easton · ISBE · Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- Deuteronomy 2:20ISBE · Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
- Deuteronomy 3:13Easton · Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
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 Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
- Joshua 15:8ISBE · Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin
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 up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of…
- Genesis 6:4Easton
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 15:20Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- Deuteronomy 2:10ISBE
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
- Deuteronomy 3:11Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature
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 children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Joshua 12:4Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature — R. V.)
¶ And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- Joshua 13:12Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature — R. V.)
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 smite, and cast them out.
- Joshua 17:15Nave 1. An ancient people of Palestine, of great stature — R. V.)
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 the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
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- Joshua 18:16 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin
- 2 Samuel 5:18 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin — The battleground of David and the Philistines
- 2 Samuel 5:22 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin — The battleground of David and the Philistines
- 2 Samuel 21:16 Easton
- 2 Samuel 21:18 Easton
- 2 Samuel 23:13 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin — The battleground of David and the Philistines
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin — The battleground of David and the Philistines
- 1 Chronicles 14:9 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin — The battleground of David and the Philistines
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 ISBE
- Job 26:5 ISBE
- Psalms 88:10 ISBE
- Proverbs 2:18 ISBE
- Proverbs 9:18 ISBE
- Proverbs 21:16 ISBE
- Isaiah 14:9 ISBE
- Isaiah 17:5 Nave 2. A valley; the boundary between the territories of Judah and Benjamin — The productiveness of
- Isaiah 26:14 ISBE
- Isaiah 26:19 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 6 references
Lofty men; giants, (Gen. 14:5; 2 Sam. 21:16, 18, marg. A.V., Rapha, marg. R.V., Raphah; Deut. 3:13, R.V.; A.V., “giants”). The aborigines of Palestine, afterwards conquered and dispossessed by the Canaanite tribes, are classed under this general title. They were known to the Moabites as Emim, i.e., “fearful”, (Deut. 2:11), and to the Ammonites as Zamzummim. Some of them found refuge among the Philistines, and were still existing in the days of David. We know nothing of their origin. They were not necessarily connected with the “giants” (R.V., “Nephilim”) of Gen. 6:4. (See GIANTS.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 14 references
ref'-a-im, re-fa'-im (repha'-im, from rapha', "a terrible one "hence "giant," in 1Ch 20:4, yelidhe ha-rapha', "sons of the giant"; the King James Version, Rephaims): A race of aboriginal or early inhabitants East of the Jordan in Ashterothkarnaim (Ge 14:5) and in the valley of Rephaim Southwest of Jerusalem (Jos 15:8). They associated with other giant races, as the Emim and Anakim (De 2:10,11) and the Zamzummim (De 2:20). It is probable that they were all of the same stock, being given different names by the different tribes who came in contact with them. The same Hebrew word is rendered "the dead," or "the shades" in various passages (Job 26:5 margin; Ps 88:10 margin; Pr 2:18 margin; Pr 9:18 margin; Pr 21:16 margin; Isa 14:9 margin; Isa 26:14,19 margin). In these instances the word is derived from rapheh, "weak," "powerless," "a shadow" or "shade."
H. Porter
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.