רְפֻאָהrᵉphuʼâh

remedy, medicine, (all figurative) (Ezekiel 30:21; Jeremiah 30:13; Jeremiah 46:11)

Pronunciation: ref-oo-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7499

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Jeremiah 30:13 There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you.
  • Jeremiah 46:11 “Go up to Gilead to get medicine, O virgin daughter of Egypt! But your many treatments will bring you no healing.
  • Ezekiel 30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. His arm has not been put in a cast so that it may heal. Neither has it been bound up with a splint to make it strong enough to hold a sword.

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).