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Definition of Teraphim

Teraphim
Teraphim Ter"a*phim, n. pl. [Heb. ter[=a]ph[=i]m.] 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.).

Meaning of Teraphim from wikipedia

- Teraphim (Hebrew: תְּרָפִים, romanized: tərāfim) is a word from the Hebrew Bible found only in the plural of uncertain etymology. Despite being plural...
- Laban pursued him and accused him of stealing his teraphim. Indeed, Rachel had taken her father's teraphim, hidden them inside her camel's seat cushion, and...
- and the sanctuary that was subsequently created there. Micah makes a teraphim and other objects of piety, which are later installed at the founding of...
- the home, where they would be represented by small idols (such as the teraphim of the Bible, often translated as "household gods" in Genesis 31:19 for...
- while the object made by Micah is closely ****ociated with a teraphim, and the ephod and teraphim are described interchangeably with the Hebrew terms pesel...
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- Tekoa Telabib Telah Tel****ar Telem Telharsa Tel-melah Tema Teman Terah Teraphim Tertius Tertullus Tetrarch Thaddeus Thahash Thamah Thamar Tharah Thebez...
- use divination; he shaketh the arrows to and fro, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver. One Babylonian clay model of a sheep's liver...
- the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver." Jerome agrees with this understanding of the verse...
- of Micah's Idol, describing the Tribe of Dan as having used ephod and teraphim in worship, and Samson (a member of the Tribe of Dan) being described as...