Targums Onkelos / Pseudo-Jonathan / Jerusalem Fragments — Etheridge — Section 25

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Work: Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch

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Teraphim. (Gen. xxxi. 19.) The obscurity which hangs over the true meaning of this word may be judged of by the multiplicity of derivations assigned to it. 1. That, by a change in the first letter, it is equivalent to Seraphim, and may denote images of bright or burnished brass. 2. That it comes from ¢seraph, “to melt;” (whence ¢soreph, “a goldsmith ;”) and signifies “ molten images.” 3. It comes from rapha, “to heal,” and describes talismans used as charms for curing or avert- ing diseases. 4. From ¢araph, (in Hiphil,) “to feed, nourish” (like the Greek tpédew). The Teraphim, in th…

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