Deuteronomy 2:11

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

רפאים רְפָאִים

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

רפא

râphâʼ

Definition

a giant

Root

or רפה; from H7495 (רפא) in the sense of invigorating;

Exhaustive

or רפה; from רפא in the sense of invigorating; a giant; giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also בית רפא.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7497

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רָפָא

verb • Root רפא • Strongs / High • Page 755

to heal

רָפָא

verb • Root רפא • Strongs / High • Page 1351

I. Transitive: To bind about, to bind a wound, hence to put on a bandage, to heal, cure; generally to heal a wounded man; Figuratively: to bring into better circumstances, restore, make the land to bloom again, help, heal the wounds of a state, forgive, pardon, comfort.

רָפָא

verb intransitive • Root רפא • Strongs / High • Page 1351

II. Intransitive: To be meek, mild, calm, peaceful; to still, to calm, to bring to rest, to be mild, to flatter, to be calm, still, gracious, mild.

רָפָא

verb transitive • Root רפא • Strongs / High • Page 1351

III. Transitive: (Not used) To make to quake, to excite fear, applied to terror-raising forms, to giants, who are hence called רְפָאִים.

רָפָא

noun masculine • Root רפא • Strongs / High • Page 1351

Properly a fearful one; hence a giant (Rephaim); proper name of the founder of a race of giants belonging to the primitive inhabitants of Palestine (the Philistines).

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

רָפָא

verb • Root רפא • Page 626

1. to mend, repair. 2. to cure, to heal (Gen. 50:2, 2 Chr. 16:12, Is. 6:10). 3. metaphorically to restore; e.g. a land, people (2 Chr. 7:14, Hos. 7:1, Ps. 30:3, Deut. 32:39, Jer. 17:14). 4. to forgive, pardon (2 Chr. 30:20, Jer. 3:22, Ps. 41:5). 5. to comfort (Job 13:4, Ps. 147:3). Includes Niph. (to be healed) and Pi. (to repair, to make wholesome).

Noun gentilic masculine plural absolute

LXX: ραφαϊν γιγάντων ραφα τιτάνων

LXX Usage Statistics

H7497b:

ραφαϊν 7× (28.7%)

γιγάντων 7× (28.0%)

ραφα 4× (14.7%)

τιτάνων 2× (7.8%)

יחשבו יֵחָשְׁבוּ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

חשב

châshab

Definition

properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute; (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H2803

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חֵ֫שֶׁב

noun masculine • Root חשב • Consonantal / Medium • Page 539

Girdle, belt, especially the girdle of the ephod.

Matched via consonantal key only

חֲשָׁב

noun masculine • Consonantal / Medium • Page 540

A word not used in its base form, meaning befriending or attachment. Used only in proper names. It is an Aramaic form for חֶשְׁבּוֹן.

Matched via consonantal key only

חֲשַׁב

verb (aramaic) • Root חשב • Consonantal / Medium • Page 539

Aramaic verb meaning to regard, to count.

Matched via consonantal key only

חִשֵּׁב

verb • Root חשב • Consonantal / Medium • Page 539

Piel stem of חשׁב. 1. To make artificially, to put together; figuratively to devise plans or intrigues. 2. To meditate, think, devise, plan against, form hostile designs, review, reckon. 3. To be very friendly to, allied with.

Matched via consonantal key only

חָשַׁב

verb • Consonantal / Medium • Page 538

1. To bind, to bind together, to knot; used for knotting threads (as a weaver), uniting things artificially (like musical instruments), girding, or fencing/fortifying. 2. Metaphorically, to meditate, to devise, to spin together ideas, often in a bad sense.

Matched via consonantal key only

חָשַׁב

verb • Root חשב • Consonantal / Medium • Page 539

To think, to meditate, to purpose, to account, to esteem, to count, to reckon, to judge, to weigh, to reflect upon. Also, (not used) to be allied, to be befriended, to be attached to.

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

חֲשַׁב

chald. v. • Page 254

To reckon, esteem. Dan. 4: 32. [35.]

חֵשֶׁב

noun masculine • Root חשב • Page 254

Verbal from חָשַׁב; the girdle of the high priest's ephod, so called from the damask work of which it was made. Ex. 28: 8, 27, 28; 29: 5; 39: 5, 20, 21.

חָשַׁב

verb • Page 253

1. to think, intend, purpose; construed with לְ and an infinitive. Ps. 140:5. 1 Sam. 18:25. 2. to imagine, invent, devise. חָשַׁב מַחֲשָׁבוֹת עַל to devise plans against, Jer. 11:19. 18:11. חָשַׁב רָעָה עַל to imagine evil against, Gen. 50:20. 3. to think, reckon, or account to be any thing.

Verb Niphal imperfect third person masculine plural

LXX: λογισθήσεται ἐλογίσατο ἐλογίσθησαν ἐλογίσαντο λογίζομαι

LXX Usage Statistics

H2803:

λογισθήσεται 8× (6.0%)

ἐλογίσατο 7× (5.3%)

ἐλογίσθησαν 7× (5.6%)

ἐλογίσαντο 6× (4.8%)

λογίζομαι 4× (3.1%)

λογίζεσθε 3× (2.4%)

'' 3× (2.0%)

ἐλογίσθη 3× (2.2%)

λογιζόμενοι 3× (2.3%)

ὑφαντὸν 3× (2.4%)

אף אַף־

yea/a nostril/anger

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

אף

ʼaph

Definition

meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though

Root

a primitive particle;

Exhaustive

a primitive particle; meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though; also, [phrase] although, and (furthermore, yet), but, even, [phrase] how much less (more, rather than), moreover, with, yea.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H637

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אַף

noun masculine • Root אנף • Strongs_Numbers • Page 171

Properly the projecting, the prominent; the nose as the prominent thing of the face; anger (conceived of as a snorting of the nose); face.

אַף

preposition / conj. • Strongs_Numbers • Page 172

Properly a preposition meaning 'with', 'at', 'to', 'before', 'toward'. As a conjunction it signifies 'also', 'likewise', 'even', 'yea', 'how much more' (a fortiori). It is often used to make pronouns or particles emphatic. When reduplicated (אַף ... אַף) it means 'as well ... as also'.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אַף

conj. prim. • Page 64

1. also. 2. and. 3. yea rather. 4. but, yet. 5. how much less. 6. literally also when; how much more (after affirmation) or how much less (after negation).

אַף

chald. • Page 65

Chald. idem. (likewise, also). Dan. 6: 23.

אַף

noun masculine • Root אנף • Page 65

1. nose; pride of nose, i. e. of countenance (Ps. 10: 4); the breathing of the nose, i. e. anger (Job. 4: 9). 2. anger (Prov. 22: 24). 3. face, countenance (Gen. 3: 19). 4. two persons (1 Sam. 1: 5).

Particle interjection

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0637:

No stats available

הם הֵם

themeselves

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

הם

hêm

Definition

they (only used when emphatic)

Root

or (prolonged) המה; masculine plural from H1981 (הלך);

Exhaustive

or (prolonged) המה; masculine plural from הלך; they (only used when emphatic); it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1992

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הֵם

pronoun • Strongs / High • Page 404

Personal pronoun, third person masculine plural: they.

הֵם

pronoun • Strongs / High • Page 405

Pronoun of the 3rd person plural masculine, they. Can also be used to express the verb 'to be' or with the article הָהֵם for emphasis, 'they themselves'.

Pronoun personal third person masculine plural

LXX: αὐτοὶ οὗτοι εἰσιν ταῦτα ἐκείναισ

LXX Usage Statistics

H1992:

αὐτοὶ 173× (27.9%)

οὗτοι 54× (8.8%)

εἰσιν 48× (7.8%)

ταῦτα 36× (6.1%)

ἐκείναισ 34× (5.8%)

ἐστιν 25× (4.1%)

--- 20× (3.4%)

αὐτῶν 12× (2.0%)

ἦσαν 11× (1.7%)

εἰσίν 11× (1.9%)

כענקים כָּעֲנָקים

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

כ

kə

Definition

like, as

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix Derived terms כאשר‎ (ka'ashér) כמו‎ (k'mó) כמות‎ (k'mót) כש־‎ (k'she-)

Exhaustive

(kaph) — as / like / according to

Core value: correspondence, patterning, resonance
כ never asserts identity. It asserts alignment.
- likeness,
- proportionality,
- conformity to a form.
Aonically, כ signals phase-alignment, not comparison.
not “like X in appearance” but “operating according to the same pattern as X.”
This is why prophetic and poetic language leans heavily on כ: it encodes structural analogy across layers, not metaphor.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

ענק

ʻÂnâq

Definition

Anak, a Canaanite

Root

the same as H6060 (ענק);

Exhaustive

the same as ענק; Anak, a Canaanite; Anak.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H6061

ענקי

ʻĂnâqîy

Definition

an Anakite or descendant of Anak

Root

patronymically from H6061 (ענק);

Exhaustive

patronymically from ענק; an Anakite or descendant of Anak; Anakim.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H6062

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עָנָק

noun masculine • Root ענק • Strongs / High • Page 1115

A neck-ornament, a neck-lace.

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עֲנָקִים

m. pl. • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1112

Same as עֲנָק, a giant. Refers to the giant-race.

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

כַּאֲשֶׁר

particle / adv. • Root אשר • Page 80

(1.) *according to what, as*; (2.) *as if*; (3.) *because*; (4.) *when*. References include Gen. 7:9, 34:12, Job 10:19, Num. 27:14, Mic. 3:4.

Preposition -Like Art, Noun common masculine plural absolute

LXX: ενακιμ ενακ ὥσπερ εναχ

LXX Usage Statistics

H6061:

ενακιμ 7× (28.6%)

ενακ 5× (25.3%)

ὥσπερ 3× (15.6%)

εναχ 2× (10.4%)

H6062:

No stats available

והמאבים וְהָמֹּאָבִים

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wə

Definition

and

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

The conjunctive ו is not merely a fixed coordinator with a stable semantic value (“and/but/or/then”). Its core function is linkage, not meaning. It binds units into a single discourse field—phrases, clauses, or whole scenes—while leaving the logical relation to be inferred from aspect, word order, genre, and context.

So the variability in translation (“and / but / or / even / then”) is not polyvalence in the particle; it is underspecification by design. The language expects the reader/hearer to perceive the relation rather than have it encoded.

Crucially, conjunctive ו does not imply temporal sequence. It implies continuity of attention. Think of it as:
- “this belongs with what precedes,”
- “remain within the same frame,”
“do not reset the discourse.”
This is why Hebrew can chain dozens of clauses with ו without subordination or explicit logic markers. The text advances by accumulation, not by branching syntactic trees. Meaning arises from the interaction:
- Aspect (qatal / yiqtol / participle),
- Position (fronted elements, resumptive nouns),
- Genre (law, narrative, oracle),
- Context (who speaks, to whom).
The ו simply keeps the circuit closed so these cues can operate together. Remove tense assumptions, and the system becomes coherent.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

ה

Definition

the

Root

Demonstrative primitive

Exhaustive

definite article, the, used for all numbers and genders; originally a pronoun demonstrative, this. interrogative particle in direct and indirect questions; in disjunctive questions: whether--or.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

מואבי

Môwʼâbîy

Definition

a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab

Root

feminine מואביה; or מואביתxlit Môwâbîyth corrected to Môwʼâbîyth; patronymical from H4124 (מואב);

Exhaustive

feminine מואביה; or מואביתxlit Môwâbîyth corrected to Môwʼâbîyth; patronymical from מואב; a Moabite or Moabitess, i.e. a descendant from Moab; (woman) of Moab, Moabite(-ish, -ss).

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4125

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מוֹאָבִי

gentilic noun / masculine • Root מואב • Strongs / High • Page 820

A Moabite man.

Conjunction, Particle definite article, Noun gentilic masculine plural absolute

LXX: μωαβίτιδασ μωαβίτησ μωαβῖται μωαβῖτισ t?

LXX Usage Statistics

H4125:

μωαβίτιδασ 3× (20.0%)

μωαβίτησ 3× (17.0%)

μωαβῖται 3× (15.0%)

μωαβῖτισ 2× (11.3%)

t? 2× (7.3%)

יקראו יִקְרְאוּ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

קרא

qârâʼ

Definition

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

Root

a primitive root (rather identical with H7122 (קרא) through the idea of accosting a person met);

Exhaustive

a primitive root (rather identical with קרא through the idea of accosting a person met); to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications); bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7121

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קָרָא

verb • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 755

to call

קָרָא

verb • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1292

To cry, raise the voice loud, call, cry out (intr.); to call upon, implore God; to proclaim, announce, preach; to praise, celebrate aloud; to name, assign a name (trans.).

קָרָא

verb • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1293

To call (to name, to be named); to call together, to invite (to an assembly or feast); to summon (for defense or tribunal); to call forth, to appoint; to choose; to read aloud, to proclaim. (Nif'al: To be called, celebrated, named, read, or reckoned as belonging to someone).

קָרָא

verb • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1293

(Pi'el: קֵרֵא) To strike upon or hit against a thing; hence to meet, to happen, to befall. (Nif'al: נִקְרָא) To go or come to one, to encounter a person (accidentally), to be met with, to meet by chance, to happen. (Hif'il: הִקְרִיאָ) To cause to happen or befall, misfortune.

קָרָא

verb • Strongs / High • Page 1294

To call, summon, invite; to proclaim, publish; to read; to name.

קָרָא

verb qal • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1293

To call, call out, cry, proclaim; to call together, convoke; to invite; to summon (to tribunal); to call forth, appoint; to call into existence; to choose; to name or be called; to read aloud, declaim.

קָרָא

verb • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1293

To be called, chosen, to be named.

קָרָא

verb qal • Root קרא • Strongs / High • Page 1293

II. Properly to strike upon or hit against a thing; hence to meet, to happen, to befall (with a double accusative).

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

קָרָא

verb • Page 593

I. to call. Subordinate significations include: (1) to call a person or thing; (2) to call out to any one (Is. 6:3); (3) to call on for help (Ps. 4:4); (4) to call together, an assembly (Joel 1:14); (5) to invite, bid (1 Sam. 9:13); (6) to announce, proclaim (Joel 4:9); (7) to celebrate, praise (Prov. 20:6); (8) to call, choose, appoint (Is. 42:6); (9) to invoke or praise the name of Jehovah (Gen. 4:26).

קָרָא

verb • Page 594

Continuation of previous entry: 2. to name; construed with an accus. of the name and a dative of the person or thing (Gen. 1:5, 4:26). 3. to read (Ex. 24:7, Deut. 17:19). Niph: 1. to be called (Jer. 44:26); 2. to be named (Gen. 2:23, 1 Sam. 9:9). Pu: 1. to be called (Ezek. 10:13); 2. to be named (Is. 48:12, 65:1).

קָרָא

verb • Root קרה • Page 594

II. i.q. קָרָה to meet or befal a person, spoken of an event or destiny (Gen. 49:1, 42:4). Infinitive לִקְרַאת used as a preposition meaning to meet (Gen. 46:29, Ex. 4:27) or over against (Gen. 15:10). Niph: to meet, spoken of persons (Ex. 5:3) or things (Deut. 22:6). Hiph: to cause to happen (Jer. 32:23).

Verb Qal imperfect third person masculine plural

LXX: ἐκάλεσεν ἐπωνόμασεν ἐβόησεν ἀνέγνω ἐκλήθη

LXX Usage Statistics

H7121:

ἐκάλεσεν 170× (21.5%)

ἐπωνόμασεν 23× (2.9%)

ἐβόησεν 17× (2.0%)

ἀνέγνω 16× (2.0%)

ἐκλήθη 16× (2.1%)

κληθήσεται 15× (2.0%)

καλέσαι 14× (1.9%)

ἐκάλεσα 14× (1.9%)

ἐκέκραξα 12× (1.7%)

ἐκάλεσαν 12× (1.5%)

להם לָהֶם

to themselves

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ל

lə

Definition

to, for

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix

Exhaustive

(lamed) — to / toward / for

Core value: orientation, directionality, belonging
ל is often mistranslated as purpose (“in order to”), but that smuggles in future-time. In reality, ל marks:
- movement toward,
- dedication unto,
- reference with respect to.
Aonically, ל is vectorial, not teleological.
not “for the sake of a future outcome”
but “oriented toward a locus or pole.”
This is why possession (“belongs to”) and motion (“toward”) use the same preposition: both indicate relational alignment, not time.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

הם

Definition

them, personal pronoun - verb/prep. 3rd person masculine plural

Root

Exhaustive

Personal object pronoun - suffix for propositions and verbs without an object: 3rd person masculine plural

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9038

Preposition, Suffix pronominal third person masculine plural

אמים אֵמִים׃

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

אימים

ʼÊymîym

Definition

Emim, an early Canaanitish (or Maobitish) tribe

Root

plural of H367 (אימה); terrors;

Exhaustive

plural of אימה; terrors; Emim, an early Canaanitish (or Maobitish) tribe; Emims.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H368

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אֵימִים

noun masculine plural • Strongs_Numbers • Page 115

1. Terror, dread. 2. Idol, properly bug-bear, an object of terror to the worshippers. 3. Giants (Emim), properly terrors, a name of the original inhabitants of the banks of the Arnon and of Moab generally.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אֵימִים

plur. masc. • Page 45

An ancient people, the original inhabitants of Moab (Gen. 14:5; Deut. 2:11). Literally 'objects of fear or terrour'; as an appellative, 'the terrible ones, the strong ones'. Chaldee: fortes. Often spelled אֵמִים.

Noun proper name

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0368:

No stats available

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
And they will be reckoned Rephaims also, as the Anakims; and the Moabites will call them Emims.

LITV Translation:
they are reckoned to be giants, they too, like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
These also shall be accounted Rephaim like the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.