Limitless Word
רָפָאrâphâʼ/raw-faw'/
HebrewH74968 occurrences (KJV)

properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)

KJV renders it: dead, deceased.

Where it appears

  • Job 26:5“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
  • Ps 88:10Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
  • Prov 2:18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
  • Prov 9:18But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 21:16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
  • Isa 14:9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  • Isa 26:14The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
  • Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.