Healing
מַרְפֵּאStrong’s H4832marpe (mar-pe)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Marpe is the Hebrew word usually translated “healing”, “health” and “healing of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.”
Meaning
- Health, healing, curehealing, cure · health, profit, sound (of mind) · healing
How it's translated
- healing 10
- and healing 3
- health 1
- healing of 1
- calmness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 8
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Malachi 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
- Proverbs 4:22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
- Proverbs 6:15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
- Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Proverbs 13:17A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
- Proverbs 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Hebrew dictionary
מַרְפֵּא marpe · healing
1) health, healing, cure 1a) healing, cure 1b) health, profit, sound (of mind) 1c) healing 1c1) incurable (with negative)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “healing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HE'ALING, participle present
tense Curing; restoring to a sound state.
- Tending to cure; mild; mollifying.
All definitions and other forms of “healing”
HE'ALING, noun
The act of curing.
- The act of covering.
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.