드라빔(Teraphim) 은 고대 근동지방에서 사용되던 민간신앙이다. 주로 가문이나 가족단위에서 수호신의 개념으로 나무나 돌을 조각하여 만들었다. 따라서 특별한 교리나 형식이 있는 것은 아니고 가문 대대로 전해내려오는 형태로 숭배되었다.
성경에 등장하는 드라빔은
Jacob (Son of Isaac) 이 처가집
Laban 의 집을 떠날 때,
Rachel 이 라반의 드라빔을 훔쳐오는 내용에서 등장한다. 이때 라헬은 자신의 집을 떠나면서 아버지의 드라빔을 훔친다.
이 때에는 야곱도 하나님에 대해 명확하게 알고 신앙이 바로서기 전이므로 라헬 역시 확실한 여호와 신앙이 있는 상태는 아니라고 할 수 있다.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
19 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
그러나 삼일 정도가 지나자 라반은 야곱과 딸들이 도망친 것을 보고 급하게 추격을 하여 따라잡게 된다. 여기서 라반이 드라빔을 찾으려 하자 라헬은 가져온 드라빔을 깔고 앉아 숨기게 된다.
34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim , put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim .
이를 통해 드라빔이라는 우상은 사실 아무 힘도 쓸수없는 존재라는 것을 창세기에서 말하고 있다.
이후 하나님에 대한 말씀이 희미해진 사사시대에 드라빔은 다시 등장한다.
Micah (Priest of Judges) 는 레위 지파 아론의 후손도 아니면서 스스로 집에 산당을 짓고 자신의 아들을 제사장으로 삼으며 드라빔을 섬기는 모습을 보여준다.
14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod , and teraphim , and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
15 They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod , the teraphim , and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
18 When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod , the teraphim , and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
19 They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel ?”
20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod , the teraphim , and the engraved image, and went with the people.