גֵּהָה
gêhâh · H1456 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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good health
State in which someone enjoys a good health
ExamplesProverbs 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָטַבto be good, to do good, to go well 1
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
- רְפֻאָה rᵉphuʼâh · H7499 · healing
- Hebrew term for healing or remedy; both רְפוּאָה and גֵּהָה denote means of healing, though רְפוּאָה is more common and can refer broadly to the act/process of healing as well as the remedy itself, while גֵּהָה (rare) specifically denotes the medicinal substance.
- תְּרוּפָה tᵉrûwphâh · H8644 · healing
- Hebrew term for remedy or healing substance; תְּרוּפָה and גֵּהָה both denote medicinal remedies, with תְּרוּפָה appearing in Proverbs and Jeremiah in contexts of healing and medical treatment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- גֵּהָה denotes medicine or healing, as in Proverbs 17:22's statement that a joyful heart is good medicine.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1456. gehah גֵּהָה noun feminine healing, cure — גֵּהָ֑ה Pro 17:22 ג יֵיטִיב שָׂמֵחַ…
גֵּהָה noun feminine healing, cure — גֵּהָ֑ה Pro 17:22 ג יֵיטִיב שָׂמֵחַ ׳לֵב compare Now.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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