house of health
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BETH-RAPHA (house of the giant?).An unknown place mentioned in 1Ch_4:12.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
beth-rā?fa (בּית רפא, bēth rāphā); B, ὁ Βαθραία, ho Bathraı́a, Βαθρεφά, Bathrephá): The name occurs only in the genealogical list in 1Ch_4:12. It does not seem possible now to associate it with any particular place or clan.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Beth-rapha
(Heb. Beyth Rapha', בֵּית רָפָא, house of Rapha, or (f the giant; Sept. Βαθρεφά v. r. Βαθραία), a name occurring in the genealogy of Judah as apparently the eldest of the three sons of Eshton, men of Rechah (1Ch_4:12). B.C. post 1618. There is a Rapha in the line of Benjamin and elsewhere, but no apparent connection exists between those and this, nor has the name been identified as belonging to any place. SEE REPHAIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.