Teraphim תְּרָפִים

Teraphim (Hebrew תְּרָפִים, Strong's H8655) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “teraphim”. It occurs 15 times in 15 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Teraphim, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 31:19
  And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
• Genesis 31:34
  Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
• Genesis 31:35
  And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

Judges

• Judges 17:5
  And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
• Judges 18:14
  Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
• Judges 18:17
  And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
• Judges 18:18
  And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
• Judges 18:20
  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.So the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 15:23
  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
• 1 Samuel 19:13
  And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
• 1 Samuel 19:16
  And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 23:24
  Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 21:21
  For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Hosea

• Hosea 3:4
  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 10:2
  For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).