Hebrew word · H7506

רֶ֫פַח

verefach

Rephah

Found only here. Lexicons such as BDB and HALOT give no secure meaning. A link to a root for 'abundance' or 'support' has been suggested but cannot be proven.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Ephraim living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.25;

son of: Beriah (H1283H);

brother of: Sheerah (H7609) and Resheph (H7566)

§ Rephah = "healing of the breath"

son of Ephraim and a ancestor of Joshua

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 7:25

Range of meaning

Found only here. Lexicons such as BDB and HALOT give no secure meaning. A link to a root for 'abundance' or 'support' has been suggested but cannot be proven.

Against the English

Transliterated as 'Rephah' everywhere. The KJV and BSB add a 'was' or 'additionally', which reflects that his name restarts the list after the side-story about Sheerah.

Used elsewhere in the period

No other biblical or extrabiblical occurrence of this person is known.

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:25 וְרֶ֣פַח and Rephah

    Additionally, Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,

    Here: A personal name found only here. Its meaning is uncertain. Some connect it to a root meaning 'wealth' or 'prosperity', but that is a guess. The 'and' picks the list up again after the side-story about Sheerah in verse 24.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.