Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
teraphim
Usage: § 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol 1a) a kind of idol used in household shrine or worship
traphiym - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Strong's H8655 תְּרָפִים (traphiym) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. traphiym (ter-aw-feme') n-m. 1. a healer 2. Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol It has 15 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include teraphim, idols, and images. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
traphiym (ter-aw-feme') n-m. 1. a healer 2. Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol [plural from H7495] KJV: idols(-atry), images, teraphim. Root(s): H7495
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teraphim
Usage: § 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol 1a) a kind of idol used in household shrine or worship
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render traphiym, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
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 not.
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 searched but found not the images.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8655.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
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 not.
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 searched but found not the images.
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.
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 houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
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, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
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 unto them, What do ye?
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.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
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.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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 consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
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 without an ephod, and without teraphim:
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 their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8655, grouped by book.
Teraphim (Strong's H8655) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Teraphim". traphiym (ter-aw-feme') n-m. 1. a healer 2. Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H8655 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8655 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as teraphim, idols, and images. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.