ἰάομαι
iáomai · G2390 · Greek · 26 occurrences
Meanings
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to heal, to cure, to make well, healing
To cause someone to become well again after having been sick
ExamplesMatthew 8:8 But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Matthew 8:13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed at once.
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to renew, to heal
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἰάομαι ‘to heal,’) To cause something to change to an earlier, correct, or appropriate state
ExamplesMatthew 13:15 FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.’
John 12:40 “HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WILL NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED, AND SO I WILL NOT HEAL THEM.”
Acts 28:27 FOR THE HEARTS OF THIS PEOPLE HAVE BECOME INSENSITIVE, AND WITH THEIR EARS THEY HARDLY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES; OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.”’
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
26 occurrences in 10 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 10
- παῖςservant, child 3
- Not stated: I 3
- Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
13 occurrences in 9 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 6
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐνin+ ὥραhour, time 1
- ἀπόfrom+ μάστιξwhip, scourge, disease 1
- ἀπόfrom+ νόσοςdiseased 1
- ἀπόfrom+ ὥραhour, time 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- μᾶλλονmore, more than, to a greater degree 1
- παραχρῆμαimmediately, at once 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- γινώσκωto know 1
- εἴδωto know 1
- φημίto say 1
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- θεραπεύω therapeúō · G2323 · to heal, to cure, to take care of
- Both lexemes denote healing or curing in their core senses. θεραπεύω additionally carries a distinct sense of service or worship, but in reference to disease and its relief, the two verbs genuinely overlap and are properly treated as near synonyms.
- σώζω sṓzō · G4982 · to deliver, to rescue, to make safe
- Both terms can describe physical healing or restoration to health, but ἰάομαι focuses specifically on curative acts (medical healing, making whole), while σώζω encompasses a broader range of deliverance including rescue from danger, spiritual salvation, and preservation, with physical healing as one component of its wider semantic field.
In the other Testament 1 word
- רָפָא râphâʼ · H7495 · to heal, to be healed
- Hebrew רָפָא and Greek ἰάομαι are direct translation equivalents denoting the act of healing or curing, used both literally of physical restoration and figuratively of spiritual or moral restoration.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To renew, to heal13.66
- In Matthew 13:15, Jesus quotes Isaiah of the spiritually dull-hearted people, “WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES... AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM,” using this verb for a spiritual restoration.
- To heal, to cure, to make well, healing23.136
- In Matthew 8:13, of the centurion's servant it is written, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed. And the servant was healed at that very moment,” using this verb for a literal, physical healing.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἰαωμαι; (perhaps from ἰός, Lob. Technol., p. 157f; cf. Vanicek, p. 87); a deponent verb,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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