the physic or medicine of God
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
REPHAEL.A family of gatekeepers (1Ch_26:7).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Re'phael. (healed of God). Son of Shemaiah, the first-born of Obed-edom. 1Ch_26:7. (B.C. about 1015).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
rē?fā́-el, ref?ā́-el (רפאל, rephā'ēl, ?God has healed?; Ῥαφαήλ, Rhaphaḗl): The eponym of a family of gatekeepers (1Ch_26:7). The name occurs in Tobit and Enoch (?Raphael?); it probably belongs to a group of late formations. See Gray, HPN, 225, 311.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Rephael
(Heb. Rephael', רְפָאֵל, healed of God; Sept. ῾Ραφαήλ), a son of Shemaiah the Levite, of the house of Obed-edom. an able-bodied porter in the service of the house of God in David's reign (1Ch_26:7). B.C. cir. 1015.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.