William Robertson Smith and George Herbert Box, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26… (1911)
“ TERAPHIM (A.V. sometimes transcribes, e.g. Judges xvii. 5; xviii. 14 seq.; Hosea iii. 4; sometimes translates “image,” 1 Sam. xix. 13; “idols,” Zech. x. 2; “idolatry,” 1 Sam. xv. 23: R.V. renders consistently “teraphim”) , a Hebrew word, found only in the plural, of uncertain etymology. ”
