teraphim
 teraph的複數形式
 Ter·a·phim n. pl.  Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.
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 teraphim
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 Teraphim
    givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small,
    analogous to the images of ancestors which were revered by the
    Romans. In order to deceive the guards sent by Saul to seize
    David, Michal his wife prepared one of the household teraphim,
    putting on it the goat's-hair cap worn by sleepers and invalids,
    and laid it in a bed, covering it with a mantle. She pointed it
    out to the soldiers, and alleged that David was confined to his
    bed by a sudden illness (1 Sam. 19:13-16). Thus she gained time
    for David's escape. It seems strange to read of teraphim, images
    of ancestors, preserved for superstitious purposes, being in the
    house of David. Probably they had been stealthily brought by
    Michal from her father's house. "Perhaps," says Bishop
    Wordsworth, "Saul, forsaken by God and possessed by the evil
    spirit, had resorted to teraphim (as he afterwards resorted to
    witchcraft); and God overruled evil for good, and made his very
    teraphim (by the hand of his own daughter) to be an instrument
    for David's escape.", Deane's David, p. 32. Josiah attempted to
    suppress this form of idolatry (2 Kings 23:24). The ephod and
    teraphim are mentioned together in Hos. 3:4. It has been
    supposed by some (Cheyne's Hosea) that the "ephod" here
    mentioned, and also in Judg. 8:24-27, was not the part of the
    sacerdotal dress so called (Ex. 28:6-14), but an image of
    Jehovah overlaid with gold or silver (comp. Judg. 17, 18; 1 Sam.
    21:9; 23:6, 9; 30:7, 8), and is thus associated with the
    teraphim. (See THUMMIM.)
 Teraphim, images; idols