Strong H7495רָפָא

to heal

Transliteration
râphâ' râphâh
Pronunciation
{raw-faw'} raw-faw'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; properly to mend (by {stitching}) that {is} (figuratively) to cure : - {cure} (cause to) {heal} {physician} {repair} X {thoroughly} make whole. See H7503 .

Detailed definition

1) to heal, make healthful
1a) (Qal) to heal
1a1) of God
1a2) healer, physician (of men)
1a3) of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig)
1a4) of individual distresses (fig)
1b) (Niphal) to be healed
1b1) literal (of persons)
1b2) of water, pottery
1b3) of national hurts (fig)
1b4) of personal distress (fig)
1c) (Piel) to heal
1c1) literal
1c2) of national defects or hurts (fig)
1d) (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)

In the Bible

Strong H7495 appears in 62 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • heal50
  • healeth4
  • physician4
  • make2
  • be1
  • cure1
  • repair1

First verses

  1. Genesis 20:17
    So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
  2. Genesis 50:2
    And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
  3. Exodus 15:26
    And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
  4. Exodus 21:19
    If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
  5. Leviticus 13:18
    The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
  6. Leviticus 13:37
    But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
  7. Leviticus 14:3
    And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
  8. Leviticus 14:48
    And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
  9. Numbers 12:13
    And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:27
    The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:35
    The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
  12. Deuteronomy 32:39
    See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
  13. 1 Samuel 6:3
    And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
  14. 1 Kings 18:30
    And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
  15. 2 Kings 2:21
    And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
  16. 2 Kings 2:22
    So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
  17. 2 Kings 8:29
    And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
  18. 2 Kings 9:15
    But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
  19. 2 Kings 20:5
    Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
  20. 2 Kings 20:8
    And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
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