Cure
גֵּהָהStrong’s H1456gehah (ge-hah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gehah is the Hebrew word usually translated “healing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Meaning
- A cure, a healing
How it's translated
- healing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
גֵּהָה gehah · cure
a cure, a healing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURE, noun
[Latin, to cure to take care, to prepare.]
- A healing; the act of healing; restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound.
- Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals.
- The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge.
All definitions and other forms of “cure”
CURE, verb transitive
[Latin See the Noun.]
- To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb; to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb.“The child was cured from that very hour” Matthew 17:18
- To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease.“Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases” Luke 9:1
- To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state.
- To dry; to prepare for preservation; as, to cure hay; or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction; as, to cure fish or beef.
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.