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| 'repaim' is based on the root word '[[repa]]' which seems to imply healing. The root word has nothing to do with large size or giantism. Etymologically, the word should mean something to the effect of "the Healed Ones" or perhaps "the Healers". | 'repaim' is based on the root word '[[repa]]' which seems to imply healing. The root word has nothing to do with large size or giantism. Etymologically, the word should mean something to the effect of "the Healed Ones" or perhaps "the Healers". |
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| Oddly however, 'repaim' is traditionally typically interpreted to mean "the dead" or is sometimes translated "the departed spirits". Although this interpretation does at first glance appears to fit the contextual usage in the eight instances of the word, the paradoxical relationship with the root word can not be ignored. | Oddly however, 'repaim' is traditionally typically interpreted to mean "the dead" or is sometimes translated "the departed spirits". Although this interpretation does at first glance appears to fit the contextual usage in the eight instances of the word, the paradoxical relationship with the root word can not be ignored. |
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| FIXME - Also get other words for death, including "the shadow of death" of Psalms 23. | FIXME - Also get other words for death, including "the shadow of death" of Psalms 23. |
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| | One thing that is clear is that it is incorrect to construe the 'repaim' as [[giants]]. |
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