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Definition of Teraph
1. n. See Teraphim.
Definition of Teraph
1. Noun. an image of a Semitic household god ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teraph
1. an image of a Semitic household god [n -APHIM]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teraph
Literary usage of Teraph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Inge- inund says that he will make a bargain with them, 'and I will give you
butter and tin, and you shall do my errand to Iceland, to seek after my teraph ..."
2. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Ingemund says that he will make a bargain with them, 'and I will give you butter
and tin, and you shall do my errand to Iceland, to seek after my teraph and ..."
3. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Inge- mund says that he will make a bargain with them, ' and I will give you
butter and tin, and you shall do my errand to Iceland, to seek after my teraph ..."
4. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs (1895)
"17*, that the teraph'im were household gods; | and recently the theory has been
advanced that they were the images of the ancestors of the family, ..."
5. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Nevertheless he sent two Fins to go to Iceland to get back his lot or teraph,
which was a Frey made of silver. The Fins came back, ..."
6. Darwinism in Morals, and Other Essays by Frances Power Cobbe (1883)
"A teraph was the decapitated head of a child, placed on a pillar and compelled by
... Further, let us suppose that the teraph only responded to inquiries ..."
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