To heal
רָפָאStrong’s H7495rapah (ra-pah)
Appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rapah is the Hebrew word usually translated “physicians”, “it has been healed” and “healed”. It appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament.
“For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.”
Meaning
- To heal, make healthful(Qal) to heal · (Niphal) to be healed · (Piel) to heal · (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)
How it's translated
- the physicians 3
- it has been healed 3
- to be healed 3
- to get himself healed 3
- he will heal 3
- and he healed 2
- heal 2
- heal me 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- Psalms 7
- 2 Kings 6
- Isaiah 6
- Hosea 5
- Leviticus 4
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 20:17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
- Genesis 50:2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- Exodus 15:26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
- Exodus 21:19If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
- Leviticus 13:18The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
- Leviticus 13:37But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
All 62 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
רָפָא rapah · to heal
1) to heal, make healthful 1a) (Qal) to heal 1a1) of God 1a2) healer, physician (of men) 1a3) of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig) 1a4) of individual distresses (fig) 1b) (Niphal) to be healed 1b1) literal (of persons) 1b2) of water, pottery 1b3) of national hurts (fig) 1b4) of personal distress (fig) 1c) (Piel) to heal 1c1) literal 1c2) of national defects or hurts (fig) 1d) (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAL, verb transitive
[Latin celo; Heb. to be whole or entire, all.]
- To cure of a disease or wound and restore to soundness, or to that state of body in which the natural functions are regularly performed; as, to heal the sick.“Speak, and my servant shall be healed” Matthew 8:8
- To cure; to remove or subdue; as, to heal a disease.
- To cause to cicatrize; as, to heal a sore or wound.
- To restore to soundness; as, to heal a wounded limb.
All definitions and other forms of “heal”
- To restore purity to; to remove feculence or foreign matter.“Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters” 2 Kings 2:21
- To remove, as differences or dissension; to reconcile, as parties at variance; as, to heal a breach or difference.
- In Scripture, to forgive; to cure moral disease and restore soundness.
- To purify from corruptions, redress grievances and restore to prosperity.
- To cover, as a roof with tiles, slate, lead, etc.
HEAL, verb intransitive
To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; sometimes with up or over; it will heal up or over.
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.