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Webster 1913 Edition
Teraphim
Ter′a-phim
,Noun.
pl.
[Heb.
terāphīm
.] Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.
Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).
Webster 1828 Edition
Teraphim
TER'APHIM
,Noun.
Definition 2024
teraphim
teraphim
English
Noun
teraphim (plural teraphims)
- An idol or other image of reverence and divination among the ancient Hebrews; apparently especially a kind of household god.
- 1611, And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. — Judges 18:20, King James Version
- 1658, And [...] the Statuæ Isiacæ, Teraphims, and little Idols, found about the Mummies, do make a decussation or Jacobs Crosse with their armes — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 191)
- Plural use example:- Genesis 31:30 & 34
- Singular use example:- 1 Samuel 19:13 & 16
Translations
An idol or other image
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