Jump to: Topical • Hitchcock's • Smith's • ATS • ISBE • Easton's • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms • Resources Topical Bible Verses 2 Kings 23:24Moreover 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. Topicalbible.org Judges 17:5 Ezekiel 21:21 1 Samuel 19:13 Judges 18:17 Psalm 31:6 Hosea 3:4 Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary TeraphimSmith's Bible Dictionary TeraphimThis word occurs only in the plural, and denotes images connected with magical rites. The derivation of the name is obscure. In one case -- (1 Samuel 19:13,16) --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. (Judges 17:3-5; 18:17,18,20) Teraphim were consulted for oracular answers by the Israelites, (Zechariah 10:2) comp. Judg 18:5,6; 1Sam 15:22,23; 19:13,16, LXX., and 2Kin 23:24 And by the Babylonians in the case of Nebuchadnezzar. (Ezekiel 21:19-22) ATS Bible Dictionary TeraphimSmall idols or superstitious figures, from the possession, adoration, and consultation of which extraordinary benefits were expected. See margin 2Ki 23...24; Ezekiel 21...21. The Eastern people are still much addicted to this superstition of talismans. The ancient teraphim appear to have been household gods, and their worship was sometimes blended with that of Jehovah, Jud 17:1-13. They seem in one case to have resembled the human form in shape and size, 1 Samuel 19:13,16. The images of Rachel, Genesis 31:19,30, were teraphim. So Jud 17:5 18:14, 20 Hosea 3:4. Easton's Bible Dictionary 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 (1 Samuel 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 (2 Kings 23:24). The ephod and teraphim are mentioned together in Hosea 3:4. It has been supposed by some (Cheyne's Hosea) that the "ephod" here mentioned, and also in Judges 8:24-27, was not the part of the sacerdotal dress so called (Exodus 28:6-14), but an image of Jehovah overlaid with gold or silver (Comp. Judges 17, 18; 1 Samuel 21:9; 23:6, 9; 30:7, 8), and is thus associated with the teraphim. (see THUMMIM.) Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (n. pl.) 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.International Standard Bible Encyclopedia TERAPHIMter'-a-fim. Strong's Hebrew 8655. teraphim -- (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol... 8654, 8655. teraphim. 8656 . (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol. Transliteration: teraphim Phonetic Spelling: (ter-aw-feme') Short Definition: idols. ... /hebrew/8655.htm - 6k Library CHAPTER III. Chapter xxxi Appendix xvi. On the Jewish views About Demons' and the Demonised ... Samuel The King --Continued. Ezekiel's Discourse Chapter xxxv Letter xxix. To Marcella. Laban had Two Daughters, Leah and Rachel; but Leah had Tender Eyes ... The Exile. Thesaurus Teraphim (14 Occurrences)... 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