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Rephaiah

Rephaiah

(Re·phaʹiah) [Jah Has Healed].

1. Second-named son of Tola and head of a paternal house in the tribe of Issachar.​—1Ch 7:1, 2.

2. A Benjamite descendant of King Saul and of Jonathan. (1Ch 9:39-43) He is called Raphah at 1 Chronicles 8:37.

3. One of the four sons of Ishi who, likely during Hezekiah’s reign, led 500 Simeonites against the Amalekites who had escaped into Mount Seir. The Simeonites then took over this territory.​—1Ch 4:41-43.

4. A postexilic descendant of David.​—1Ch 3:5, 9, 10, 21.

5. An official in Jerusalem who helped on Nehemiah’s project of repairing Jerusalem’s wall; son of Hur.​—Ne 3:9.