Strong’s
H7515Verb3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Proverbs 25:26נִרְפָּשׂ
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
- Ezekiel 32:2וַתִּרְפֹּס
“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
Brown-Driver-Briggs
רָפַס, רָפַשׂ vb. stamp, tread, foul by stamping, treading
Qal c. acc. rivers
Niph. a fountain befouled.
Hithp. (stamp oneself down, then fig.) humble thyself
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.