Word

אֲרוּכָה

ʼărûwkâh · H724 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

repair

Causative action by which humans restore a building to its original state

Examples
2 Chronicles 24:13 So the workmen labored, and the repair work progressed in their hands, and they restored the house of God according to its specifications and strengthened it.
Nehemiah 4:7 Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on, and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry.
healing

Causative action by which humans or deities help or cause (other) humans to be restored to health or physical strength after a disease or an accident

Examples
Isaiah 58:8 “Then your light will break out like the dawn, And your recovery will spring up quickly; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?
Jeremiah 30:17 ‘For I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the LORD, ‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying: “It is Zion; no one cares for her.”’
healing

Literally: healing; hence: causative action by which deities remove the consequences of evil and restore a country or nation to a state of peace and prosperity

Examples
Jeremiah 33:6 ‘Behold, I am going to bring to it healing and a remedy, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּתdaughter 1
ךָyour 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

עָלָהto go up 3
צָמַחto sprout 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

עָלָהto go up 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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Semantic domains 3 entries

Whole002003001020: אֲרוּכָה covers the sense of restoration to wholeness or completeness, as in the repair work on Jerusalem's wall progressing under the returned exiles' hands.
Strong002001001063: The same word also carries a sense of being made strong or firm again, since restoring something to health inherently strengthens it.
Safe002003003019: Beyond structural repair, אֲרוּכָה extends to healing and recovery bringing safety, as in Isaiah's promise that recovery will spring up quickly for the one who is healed.

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָרַךְ ʼârak · H748 · to be long, to grow long, to make longer · 34×אֹרֶךְ ʼôrek · H753 · length, long life, old age · 95×אָרֵךְ ʼârêk · H750 · long, slow to anger, patient · 15×אֲרוּכָהʼărûwkâh · H724אָרֹךְ ʼârôk · H752 · long, lengthy · 3×אַרְכָּא ʼarkâʼ · H754 · lengthening, prolonged · 2×אֲרַךְ ʼărak · H749 · be meet · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H724. arukah אֲרוּכָה noun feminine healing of a wound, restoration (properly the new…

H724. arukah
אֲרוּכָה noun feminine healing of a wound, restoration (properly the new flesh that grows at the wounded spot, Arabic ; FiJPh xiii. 114-6, so Fl De on Isa 58:8; see also Di) — ׳א2Ch 24:13; Neh 4:1; אֲרֻכָה Jer 30:17; Jer 33:6; construct אֲרֻכַת Jer 8:22; אֲרֻכָֽתְךָ Isa 58:8; — alwaysfig.
a. healing, restoration of Israel Isa 58:8, here with verb צָמַח, elsewhere with עָלָה; Jer 8:22 (|| רָפָא), with עָלָה Hiph`il, subject ׳י, Jer 30:17; Jer 33:6 (|| id.)
b. restoration of walls of temple 2Ch 24:13, of walls of Jerusalem (compare Fi above) Neh 4:1 (both with עלה).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Strong3 occurrences Whole2 occurrences Safe1 occurrence

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