rephaim

The term rephaim is used to denote the manes of the departed.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

Heb. rephaim, a race of giants (Deut. 3: 11) who lived on the east of Jordan, from whom Og was descended.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

They believed there was a dismal empire in the earth where the rephaim, or ghosts of the dead, reposed forever in a state of semi sleep.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

The place is conceived on an immense scale, shrouded in accompaniments of gloomy grandeur and peculiar awe: an enormous cavern in the earth, filled with night; a stupendous hollow kingdom, to which are poetically attributed valleys and gates, and in which are congregated the slumberous and shadowy hosts of the rephaim, never able to go out of it again forever.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

The activity thus vividly described is evidently a mere figure of speech: so is it in the other instances which picture the rephaim as employed and in motion.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863