STRONGS G4481:
Ῥεμφάν (
R G), or
Ρ᾽εφαν (
L Tr), or
Ρ᾽ομφαν (
T) (or
Ρ᾽ομφα WH, see their Appendix on Acts as below),
Remphan (so
A. V.), or
Rephan (so
R. V.),
Romphan (or
Rompha), a Coptic pr. name of Saturn:
Acts 7:43, from
Amos 5:26 where the
Sept. render by
Ραιφαν (or
Ρ᾽εφαν) the Hebrew
כִּיוּן, thought by many to be equivalent to the Syriac
nw)K [], and the Arabic designations of Saturn; but by others regarded as an appellative, signifying 'stand,' 'pedestal' (German
Gerüst; so Hitzig), or 'statue' (so Gesenins), formed from
כּוּן after the analogy of such forms as
חִבּוּק,
פִּגּוּל, etc. Cf.
Winers RWB, under the word Saturn; Gesenius, Thesaurus, p. 669{b}; J. G. Müller in
Herzog xii. 736; Merx in
Schenkel i., p. 516f; Schrader in
Riehm, p. 234; (Baudissin in
Herzog edition 2 under the word Saturn, and references there given;
B. D., under the word ).
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