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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teraphim \Ter"a*phim\, n. pl. [Heb. ter[=a]ph[=i]m.]
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.
--Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).
Wiktionary
n. An idol or other image of reverence and divination among the ancient Hebrews; apparently especially a kind of household god.
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Wikipedia
Teraphim ( teraph; plural: תרפים teraphim) is a Hebrew word from the Bible, found only in the plural, of uncertain etymology. Despite being plural, Teraphim may refer to singular objects, using the Hebrew plural of excellence. The word Teraphim is explained in classical rabbinical literature as meaning disgraceful things (dismissed by modern etymologists), and in many English translations of the Bible it is translated as idols, or household god(s), though its exact meaning is more specific than this, but unknown precisely.
Usage examples of "teraphim".
And (not to enlarge upon the cruciated character of Trismegistus, or handed crosses, so often occurring in the Needles of Pharoah, and Obelisks of Antiquity) the StatuæIsiacæ, Teraphims, and little Idols, found about the Mummies, do make a decussation of Jacob's Crosse, with their armes, like that on the head of Ephraim and Manasses, and this decussis is also graphically described between them.