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Strong's H7503

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H7503

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.

רָפָהrâphâhraw-faw'

Short Definition: to slacken (in many applications
Strong’s Definition: to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)
KJV Definition: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See H7495 (רָפָא).

Hebrew occurrences:136

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Brown–Driver–Briggs: רָפָה
STEP Hebrew Lexicon: רָפָה

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.