Remedy
רְפֻאָהStrong’s H7499rephuah (re-phu-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rephuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “medications of”, “remedies” and “healing”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.”
Meaning
- Remedy, medicine
How it's translated
- medications of 1
- remedies 1
- healing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
- Ezekiel 30:21Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
Hebrew dictionary
רְפֻאָה rephuah · remedy
remedy, medicine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “remedy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REM'EDY, noun
[Latin remedium; re and medeor, to heal.]
- That which cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; with for; as a remedy for the gout.
- That which counteracts an evil of any kind; with for, to or against; usually with for.
- That which cures uneasiness.
- That which repairs loss or disaster; reparation.
All definitions and other forms of “remedy”
REM'EDY, verb transitive
- To cure; to heal; as, to remedy a disease.
- To cure; to remove, as an evil; as, to remedy grief; to remedy the evils of a war.
- To repair; to remove mischief; in a very general sense.
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.