1) to sink, relax, sink down, let drop, be disheartened 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sink down 1a2) to sink, drop 1a3) to sink, relax, abate 1a4) to relax, withdraw 1b) (Niphal) idle (participle) 1c) (Piel) to let drop 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to let drop, abandon, relax, refrain, forsake 1d2) to let go 1d3) to refrain, let alone 1d4) to be quiet 1e) (Hithpael) to show oneself slack
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H7503 — רָפָה
ra.phah · to slacken · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 4:26 · וַיִּ֖רֶףSo he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.Exodus 5:8 · נִרְפִּ֣יםAnd the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.Exodus 5:17 · נִרְפִּ֥ים · נִרְפִּ֑יםBut he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.Deuteronomy 4:31 · יַרְפְּךָ֖for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God; he will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.Deuteronomy 9:14 · הֶ֤רֶףlet me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.Deuteronomy 31:6 · יַרְפְּךָ֖Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.Deuteronomy 31:8 · יַרְפְּךָ֖And Jehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.Joshua 1:5 · אַרְפְּךָ֖There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.Joshua 10:6 · תֶּ֥רֶףAnd the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.Joshua 18:3 · מִתְרַפִּ֔יםAnd Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, hath given you?Judges 8:3 · רָפְתָ֤הGod hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.Judges 11:37 · הַרְפֵּ֨הAnd she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.Judges 19:9 · רָפָ֨הAnd when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.1 Samuel 11:3 · הֶ֤רֶףAnd the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to thee.1 Samuel 15:16 · הֶ֚רֶףThen Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what Jehovah hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.2 Samuel 4:1 · וַיִּרְפּ֖וּAnd when Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.2 Samuel 24:16 · הֶ֣רֶףAnd when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.2 Kings 4:27 · הַרְפֵּֽה־And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Jehovah hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.1 Chronicles 21:15 · הֶ֣רֶףAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.1 Chronicles 28:20 · יַרְפְּךָ֙And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed; for Jehovah God, even my God, is with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until all the work for the service of the house of Jehovah be finished.2 Chronicles 15:7 · יִרְפּ֖וּBut be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.Ezra 4:4 · מְרַפִּ֖יםThen the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,Nehemiah 6:3 · אַרְפֶּ֔הָAnd I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?Nehemiah 6:9 · יִרְפּ֧וּFor they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.Job 7:19 · תַ֝רְפֵּ֗נִיHow long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?Job 12:21 · רִפָּֽה׃He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.Job 27:6 · אַרְפֶּ֑הָMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.Psalm 37:8 · הֶ֣רֶףCease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.Psalm 46:10 · הַרְפּ֣וּBe still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.Psalm 138:8 · תֶּֽרֶף׃Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands.Proverbs 4:13 · תֶּ֑רֶףTake fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.Proverbs 18:9 · מִתְרַפֶּ֣הHe also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.Proverbs 24:10 · הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָIf thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.Song of Solomon 3:4 · אַרְפֶּ֔נּוּIt was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother’s house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.Isaiah 5:24 · יִרְפֶּ֔הTherefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 13:7 · תִּרְפֶּ֑ינָהTherefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:Jeremiah 6:24 · רָפ֣וּWe have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.Jeremiah 38:4 · מְרַפֵּ֡אThen the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.Jeremiah 49:24 · רָפְתָ֥הDamascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.Jeremiah 50:43 · וְרָפ֣וּThe king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.Zephaniah 3:16 · יִרְפּ֥וּIn that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.