Rephan
Rephan
(Act 7:43, so Revised Version ; Authorized Version Remphan, WH [Note: H Westcott-Horts Greek Testament.] Rompha, Tisch. Romphan)
St. Stephen in his speech is quoting from Septuagint of Amo 5:26. None of the above forms is known at all as the name of a god elsewhere, the suggestion of Lipsius that it is connected with the name repa-n-neteru, youngest of the gods, a title of the god Seb (= Saturn), being too far-fetched. The Hebrew has Chiun, which may have been read as Kewan, and changed into Rephan, a similar change of to in Septuagint occurring in Nah 1:6. The Hebrew Kewan might represent the Babylonian Kaawanu, Saturn (Schrader, KAT [Note: AT Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament2 (Schrader, 1883).] 2 [Note: Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament2 (Schrader, 1883).] , 1883, p. 409 f., Eng. translation , 1885-88, ii, 141 f.), but more probably it is not a proper name at all (W. R. Smith) are a gloss, as is indicated by the fact that the Septuagint read them before = . The gloss arose from the idea that Chiun is equivalent to the Syriac Kwn, a Persian name of the planet Saturn. But the date of Amos forbids this interpretation. Both and must be common nouns in the construct state, probably the shrine of your (idol) king and the stand of your image, i.e. portable shrine and platform on which the idols were exhibited and borne in processions (OTJC2, London, 1892, p. 294 n.; cf. also Prophets of Israel, do., 1882, p. 401).] The mention of the star is all that is requisite for St. Stephens purpose, namely, to show that the foreign idolatrous planet-worship had crept in and meant apostasy from the true worship of Jahweh. See, further, Commentaries on Acts and Amos.
F. W. Worsley.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Rephan
REPHAN (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Remphan).A word which replaces Chiun of the Hebrew text of Amo 5:26, both in the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] and in the quotation in Act 7:48. The generally accepted explanation of this word is that Rephan (the preferable form) is a corruption and transliteration of Kewan (Kaiwan, Kaawansee Chiun)r having somehow mistakenly replaced k, and w (the Hebrew wau or vav) having been transliterated ph (the Gr. phi).
W. M. Nesbit.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Rephan
refan: A name for Chiun, the planet Saturn. See ASTROLOGY; CHIUN.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Rephan
Rephan. The reading, in the Revised Version, for Remphan, Act 7:43. See Remphan.