Word

רְפֻאָה

rᵉphuʼâh · H7499 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

healing

Process with which a disease or wound is restored to health or wellness

Examples
Jeremiah 30:13 ‘There is no one to plead your cause; No healing for your sore, No recovery for you.
Jeremiah 46:11 Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, Virgin daughter of Egypt! You have used many remedies in vain; There is no healing for you.
Ezekiel 30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may be strong to wield the sword.

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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תְּעָלָהchannel 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
רָבָהto increase 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אַיִןthere is no, not 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 1 word

אֲרוּכָה ʼărûwkâh · H724 · repair, healing: אֲרוּכָה refers to healing or restoration (especially of tissue/wounds), used in poetic/prophetic contexts as a near synonym for the healing process that רְפֻאָה denotes.

Contrasting words 2 words

מַכָּה makkâh · H4347 · stroke, lash, stripe: מַכָּה denotes a wound, blow, or plague—the injury or affliction that stands in lexical opposition to רְפֻאָה (healing/medicine), representing the condition that healing addresses.
נֶגַע negaʻ · H5061 · plague, disease, stroke: נֶגַע refers to a plague, stroke, or affliction, lexically opposite to רְפֻאָה as the disease or harm that requires healing.

In the other Testament 3 words

θεραπεία therapeía · G2322 · cure, healing, the household servants: θεραπεία is the standard Greek noun for healing/medical treatment, serving as the natural translation equivalent for רְפֻאָה in contexts denoting healing or medicine.
ἴαμα íama · G2386 · the power to heal, the capacity to heal: ἴαμα denotes a healing or cure, often used in the LXX to translate Hebrew healing terminology, and represents the result or act of healing parallel to רְפֻאָה.
ἴασις íasis · G2392 · to heal, to cure, to make well: ἴασις refers to the act or process of healing, functionally equivalent to רְפֻאָה as a noun denoting healing or remedy.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Strong002001001063: Ezekiel 30:21 speaks of Pharaoh's broken arm not being bound up "for healing... so that it may be strong to wield the sword," directly connecting this word's healing sense to restored strength; Jeremiah 30:13 and 46:11 both lament that "there is no healing" for the nation's wound.

Word family 6 words

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

רָפָא râphâʼ · H7495 · to heal, to be healed · 67×מַרְפֵּא marpêʼ · H4832 · healing, to heal, to restore · 16×תְּרָפִים tᵉrâphîym · H8655 · household idols · 15×רָפָא râphâʼ · H7496 · spirits of the dead, shades · 8×רְפֻאָהrᵉphuʼâh · H7499רִפְאוּת riphʼûwth · H7500 · healing · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7499. rephuah [רְפֻאָה] noun feminine remedy, medicine; — plural absolute רְפֻאֹת Eze…

H7499. rephuah
[רְפֻאָה] noun feminine remedy, medicine; — plural absolute רְפֻאֹת Eze 30:21; Jer 30:13, וֺת- Jer 46:11 (all figurative).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Strong3 occurrences

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