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Words
תְּרָפִים H8655
- Home gloss
- teraphim
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- images / household gods
- Note
- Figures kept in the house and consulted (31:19, 34–35; 1 Sam 19:13, 16; Judg 17:5; Ezek 21:26); Laban's "elohim" (31:30). Transliterated, as the KJV does at Judg 17:5. WPRB "household gods"
- Rulings
- 5, 18, 46
Occurrences (3)
- 31:19 And Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
- 31:34 And Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the litter of the camel, and sat on them. And Laban felt all the tent, and did not find.
- 31:35 And she said to her father, "Let it not flare in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise from before your face, for the way of women is to me." And he searched, and did not find the teraphim.