Health
אֲרוּכָהStrong’s H0724arukhah (a-ru-khah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arukhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “repair”, “healing” and “healing your”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.”
Meaning
- Healing, restoration
How it's translated
- repair 2
- healing 2
- and healing your 1
- healing of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 4:7But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
- Isaiah 58:8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
- Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
- Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
- Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲרוּכָה arukhah · health
healing, restoration
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “health” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEALTH, noun
helth. [from heal.] That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound, well organized and disposed, and in which they all perform freely their natural functions. In this state the animal feels no pain. This word is applied also to plants.
- Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties.
- Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness.
- Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's people., Psalms 43:5
- Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.