The obnoxious name Teraphim was dropped. The thing itself was retained. The very name Urim was, [Spencer] argued, identical in meaning with Teraphim (Urim = “lights, fires;” Seraphim = “the burning,or fiery ones;” and Teraphim is but the same word, with …

2020年7月21日 · According to Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Teraphim were made from the heads of slaughtered first-born male adult humans. The heads were shaved, salted, spiced, with a golden plate placed under the tongue, and magic words engraved upon the plate. It was believed that the Teraphim, mounted on the wall, would talk to people.

2015年8月22日 · This text makes a distinction between teraphim and idols, so the answer to the main OP question is a simple "no." It also implies that until Hilkiah's book of the Law was discovered many centuries later, teraphim were common. Their exact use is much debated, but the law prohibiting possession of them was not enforced until Josiah's reign.

2024年1月8日 · The tablets from Nuzi proved to have direct bearing on knowledge of teraphim since the Akkadian term ilāni, "gods," was used in Nuzi legal texts in ways that closely paralleled some of the occurrences of the word ʾelohim or its interchangeable partner teraphim (Gen. 31:30; cf. 31:19, 34, 35). In an adoption contract from Nuzi it is stated ...

2023年11月8日 · In Judges 17:5, Micah made an ephod and teraphim, or idol, for his sanctuary. The most natural inference from all these passages is that “ephod” here signifies an image that was set up in the sanctuary, especially since the word is cited with teraphim, which undoubtedly refers to graven images (Hosea 3:4).

2022年1月14日 · Apart from this interesting feature, there are two significant reasons to think it might have been something like a punishment: (1) it might be thought that Rachel did something quite seriously sinful in stealing her father’s “gods” (“images,” idols, teraphim: Gen 31:19): and (2) Jacob threatened the thief with death: “With ...

2015年1月23日 · The Jewish Encyclopedia describes a teraphim as "a plural word of unknown derivation used in the Old Testament to denote the primitive Semitic house-gods whose cult had been handed down to historical times from the earlier period of nomadic wanderings.

2019年8月29日 · In Genesis 31:33, when Laban went to look for his stolen teraphim, the author notes: And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the two maids’ tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent. Why was Jacob's family segregated per wife?

2021年7月12日 · Further, I believe it is a reasonable hypothesis that although David did not use Goliath's head as an object of worship or as a talisman, the word "teraphim" was used in 1 Sam. 19:13 because it fit - the preserved head would have been similar to household-idol type teraphim mentioned elsewhere in the Biblical text.

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