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This comprehensive, up-to-date reference tool provides a helpful and reliable guide for reading and studying the Bible. Nearly 5,000 entries identify every person and place named in the Bible, examine the contents and background of each biblical book and related writings, describe the physical and cultural aspects of the world of the Bible, and explain and interpret important focuses of biblical...

in northern Transjordan was known as a “land of Rephaim” (Deut. 3:13; Heb. ˒ereṣ rep̱ā˒îm), as was Ammon (2:20); King Og of Bashan is called the last of the Rephaim (3:11; Josh. 12:4; 13:12). Some Philistine heroes slain by David and his men were descendants of Rapha (so JB, NIV; NJV “the Raphah”), a corresponding singular form of this name (2 Sam. 21:16–22, hārāp̱â 1 Chr. 20:4–8, hārāp̱ā˒; RSV “giants”; KJV “giant”). The “valley of Rephaim” (˓ēmeq rep̱ā˒îm) southwest of Jerusalem,
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