רָפָאrâphâʼ
heal
Pronunciation: raw-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7495
Meanings
Qal: heal (Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 19:22; Isaiah 57:19)
1.
a. of God (Genesis 20:17; Psalms 107:20; Numbers 12:13)
b. of men (Ecclesiastes 3:3; Genesis 50:2; 2 Chronicles 16:12)
2. hurts of nation, involving ׳ י's (restored) favour (and, often, forgiveness)
a. one heal them, they be healed (Hosea 6:1; Hosea 11:3; Exodus 15:26)
3.
a. individual distresses (Jeremiah 17:14; Jeremiah 41:5; Psalms 147:3)
Niph`al: be healed (Leviticus 13:37; Jeremiah 51:9; Ezekiel 47:8)
1. of person (1 Samuel 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:27; Deuteronomy 28:35)
2. be healed
a. of national hurts (Jeremiah 51:8; Jeremiah 51:9; Isaiah 53:5)
b. of personal distress (Jeremiah 17:14; Jeremiah 15:18)
Pi`el: have healed, heal (2 Kings 2:21; Ezekiel 34:4; Jeremiah 51:9)
1. he shall have, him (Exodus 21:19; 1 Kings 18:30; 2 Kings 2:21)
2. of healing national defects and hurts (Ezekiel 34:14; Zechariah 11:16; Jeremiah 6:14)
Hithpa`el: literally, in order to get healed (2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:15; 2 Chronicles 22:6)
Same root
- יִרְפְּאֵלYirpᵉʼêl · H3416Jirpeel, a place in Palestine
- מַרְפֵּאmarpêʼ · H4832properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity
- רָפָאrâphâʼ · H7496properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
- רָפָאrâphâʼ · H7497a giant
- רְפֻאָהrᵉphuʼâh · H7499a medicament
- רִפְאוּתriphʼûwth · H7500a cure
- רְפָאֵלRᵉphâʼêl · H7501Rephael, an Israelite
- רָפוּאRâphûwʼ · H7505Raphu, an Israelite
Where it appears
Appears 67 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 20:17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, so they could have children.
- Genesis 50:2 Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob was embalmed.
- Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”
- Exodus 21:19 If he is later able to walk outside again, even with a crutch, the assailant will not be punished but must compensate his victim for lost wages and provide for his full recovery.
- Leviticus 13:18 “If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
- Leviticus 13:37 But if the color of the scabby sore does not change and black hair has grown on it, it has healed. The priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean.
See every passage
- Genesis 20:17, 50:2
- Exodus 15:26, 21:19
- Leviticus 13:18, 13:37, 14:3, 14:48
- Numbers 12:13
- Deuteronomy 28:27, 28:35, 32:39
- 1 Samuel 6:3
- 1 Kings 18:30
- 2 Kings 2:21, 2:22, 8:29, 9:15, 20:5, 20:8
- 2 Chronicles 7:14, 16:12, 22:6, 30:20
- Job 5:18, 13:4
- Psalms 6:2, 30:2, 41:4, 60:2, 103:3, 107:20, 147:3
- Ecclesiastes 3:3
- Isaiah 6:10, 19:22, 30:26, 53:5, 57:18, 57:19
- Jeremiah 3:22, 6:14, 8:11, 8:22, 15:18, 17:14, 19:11, 30:17, 33:6, 51:8, 51:9
- Lamentations 2:13
- Ezekiel 34:4, 47:8, 47:9, 47:11
- Hosea 5:13, 6:1, 7:1, 11:3, 14:4
- Zechariah 11:16
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).