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TERAPHIM - T>@ - This word occurs only in the plural, and denotes images connected with magical rites. The derivation of the name is obscure. In one case
( kjv@1Samuel:19:13 kjv@1Samuel:19:16)
a single statue seems to be intended by the plural. The teraphim, translated "images" in the Authorized Version, carried away from Laban by Rachel were regarded by Laban as gods, and it would therefore appear that they were used by those who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim again are included among Micah’s images. kjv@Judges:17:3-5 kjv@Judges:18:17-18-20) Teraphim were consulted for oracular answers by the Israelites, kjv@Zechariah:10:2) comp. Judg 18:5-6; kjv@1Samuel:15:22-23 kjv@1Samuel:19:13 kjv@1Samuel:19:16, LXX., and 2Kin 23:24 And by the Babylonians in the case of Nebuchadnezzar. kjv@Ezekiel:21:19-22)

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Teraphim @ givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small, analogous to the images of ancestors which were revered by the Romans. In order to deceive the guards sent by Saul to seize David, Michal his wife prepared one of the household teraphim, putting on it the goat's-hair cap worn by sleepers and invalids, and laid it in a bed, covering it with a mantle. She pointed it out to the soldiers, and alleged that David was confined to his bed by a sudden illness ( kjv@1Samuel:19:13-16). Thus she gained time for David's escape. It seems strange to read of teraphim, images of ancestors, preserved for superstitious purposes, being in the house of David. Probably they had been stealthily brought by Michal from her father's house. "Perhaps," says Bishop Wordsworth, "Saul, forsaken by God and possessed by the evil spirit, had resorted to teraphim (as he afterwards resorted to witchcraft); and God overruled evil for good, and made his very teraphim (by the hand of his own daughter) to be an instrument for David's escape.", Deane's David, p. 32. Josiah attempted to suppress this form of idolatry ( kjv@2Kings:23:24). The ephod and teraphim are mentioned together in kjv@Hosea:3:4. It has been supposed by some (Cheyne's Hosea) that the "ephod" here mentioned, and also in kjv@Judges:8:24-27, was not the part of the sacerdotal dress so called kjv@Exodus:28:6-14), but an image of Jehovah overlaid with gold or silver (comp. kjv@Judges:17-18; 1Samuel:21:9 kjv@1Samuel:23:6 kjv@1Samuel:23:9 kjv@1Samuel:30:7 -8), and is thus associated with the teraphim. (
See THUMMIM.)

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TERAPHIM @ -(Household idols)
- Used by Laban, stolen by Rachael (equivalent to a deed to all of Laban's property, according to the Nuzi tablets) kjv@Genesis:31:19 kjv@Genesis:31:30-35
- Used by Micah, stolen by the Danites kjv@Judges:17:5; kjv@Judges:18:14 kjv@Judges:18:17-20
- Condemned and disposed of by Jacob kjv@Genesis:35:2-4 with kjv@Genesis:31:35-39
- Destroyed by Josiah .
See IDOLS

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kjv@STRING:Teraphim <HITCHCOCK>@ images; idols - HITCHCOCK-T

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H8655 <STRHEB>@ תּרפים terâphîym ter-aw-feme' Plural perhaps from H7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol: - idols ({-atry}) {images} teraphim.