*tarāp-: 'teraphim (household/ancestral gods; divinatory images)'

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Plurale tantum, no singular attested. Hebrew term of uncertain etymology, no Semitic cognates. HALOT 1794 lists Hittite-Hurrian tarpiš (CHD T 181: 'substitute figure, spirit of the dead') as the most cited external parallel, an Indo-European word and not a genetic Semitic relation. Other proposals, none established: √r-p-ʔ 'to heal' (healing images), √t-r-p 'nourish'.