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, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.Exodus 5:8 · נִרְפִּ֣יםThe number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’Exodus 5:17 · נִרְפִּ֥ים · נִרְפִּ֑יםBut he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’Deuteronomy 4:31 · יַרְפְּךָ֖for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.Deuteronomy 9:14 · הֶ֤רֶףlet me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”Deuteronomy 31:6 · יַרְפְּךָ֖Be strong and courageous, don’t be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.”Deuteronomy 31:8 · יַרְפְּךָ֖Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”Joshua 1:5 · אַרְפְּךָ֖No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.Joshua 10:6 · תֶּ֥רֶףThe men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your 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 have gathered together against us.”Joshua 18:3 · מִתְרַפִּ֔יםJoshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?Judges 8:3 · רָפְתָ֤הGod has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! 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 · הַרְפֵּ֨הShe said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”Judges 19:9 · רָפָ֨הWhen the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”1 Samuel 11:3 · הֶ֤רֶףThe elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven day, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”1 Samuel 15:16 · הֶ֚רֶףThen Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”2 Samuel 4:1 · וַיִּרְפּ֖וּWhen Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.2 Samuel 24:16 · הֶ֣רֶףWhen the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now stay your hand.” The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.2 Kings 4:27 · הַרְפֵּֽה־When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”1 Chronicles 21:15 · הֶ֣רֶףGod sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.1 Chronicles 28:20 · יַרְפְּךָ֙David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.2 Chronicles 15:7 · יִרְפּ֖וּBut you be strong, and don’t let 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 · אַרְפֶּ֔הָI sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”Nehemiah 6:9 · יִרְפּ֧וּFor they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done. But now, strengthen my hands.”Job 7:19 · תַ֝רְפֵּ֗נִיHow long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?Job 12:21 · רִפָּֽה׃He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.Job 27:6 · אַרְפֶּ֑הָI hold fast to my righteousness, 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. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.Psalm 46:10 · הַרְפּ֣וּ“Be 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׃Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.Proverbs 4:13 · תֶּ֑רֶףTake firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.Proverbs 18:9 · מִתְרַפֶּ֣הOne who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.Proverbs 24:10 · הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָIf you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.Song of Solomon 3:4 · אַרְפֶּ֔נּוּI had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.Isaiah 5:24 · יִרְפֶּ֔הTherefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks 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 Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 13:7 · תִּרְפֶּ֑ינָהTherefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.Jeremiah 6:24 · רָפ֣וּWe have heard its report; our hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.Jeremiah 38:4 · מְרַפֵּ֡אThen the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.”Jeremiah 49:24 · רָפְתָ֥הDamascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.Jeremiah 50:43 · וְרָפ֣וּThe king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.Zephaniah 3:16 · יִרְפּ֥וּIn that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”