Râphâʼ — H7495

Definition

verb

properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure

1. to heal, make healthful
1. (Qal) to heal
1. of God
2. healer, physician (of men)
3. of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig)
4. of individual distresses (fig)
2. (Niphal) to be healed
1. literal (of persons)
2. of water, pottery
3. of national hurts (fig)
4. of personal distress (fig)
3. (Piel) to heal
1. literal
2. of national defects or hurts (fig)
4. (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)

Usually translated as

heal, cure, physician, repair, thoroughly, make whole

Origin

or râphâh; a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• iáomai (G2390)

Occurrences

Râphâʼ occurs 68 times in 63 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (2), Leviticus (4), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (3), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (7), 2 Chronicles (4), Job (2), Psalms (7), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (6), Jeremiah (11), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (4), Hosea (5), Zechariah (1)

• Genesis 20:17 — So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed (וַיִּרְפָּ֨א) Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
• Genesis 50:2 — And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians (הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔ים) to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
• Genesis 50:2 — And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians (הָרֹפְאִ֖ים) embalmed Israel.
• 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 (רֹפְאֶֽךָ) thee.
• 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 (יְרַפֵּֽא).
• 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 (וְרַפֹּ֥א).
• Leviticus 13:18 — The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed (וְנִרְפָּֽא),
• 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 (נִרְפָּ֥א), he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
• 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 (נִרְפָּ֥א) in the leper;
• 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 (נִרְפָּ֖א).
• Numbers 12:13 — And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal (רְפָ֥א) her now, O God, I beseech thee.
• 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 (לְהֵרָפֵֽא).
• Deuteronomy 28:35 — The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed (לְהֵרָפֵ֑א), from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
• 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 (אֶרְפָּ֔א): neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
• 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 (תֵּרָֽפְאוּ֙), and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
• 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 (וַיְרַפֵּ֛א) the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
• 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 (רִפִּ֙אתִי֙) these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
• 2 Kings 2:22 — So the waters were healed (וַיֵּרָפ֣וּ) unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
• 2 Kings 6:11 — Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
• 2 Kings 8:29 — And king Joram went back to be healed (לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א) 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.
• 2 Kings 9:15 — But king Joram was returned to be healed (לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א) 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.
• 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 (רֹ֣פֶא) thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
• 2 Kings 20:8 — And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal (יִרְפָּ֥א) me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
• 2 Chronicles 7:14 — If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal (וְאֶרְפָּ֖א) their land.
• 2 Chronicles 16:12 — And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians (בָּרֹפְאִֽים).
• 2 Chronicles 22:6 — And he returned to be healed (לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א) in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
• 2 Chronicles 30:20 — And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed (וַיִּרְפָּ֖א) the people.
• Job 5:18 — For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole (תִּרְפֶּֽינָה).
• Job 13:4 — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians (רֹפְאֵ֖י) of no value.
• Psalms 6:2 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal (רְפָאֵ֥נִי) me; for my bones are vexed.
• Psalms 30:2 — O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed (וַתִּרְפָּאֵֽנִי) me.
• Psalms 41:4 — I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal (רְפָאָ֥ה) my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
• Psalms 60:2 — Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal (רְפָ֖ה) the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
• Psalms 103:3 — Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth (הָ֝רֹפֵ֗א) all thy diseases;
• Psalms 107:20 — He sent his word, and healed (וְיִרְפָּאֵ֑ם) them, and delivered them from their destructions.
• Psalms 147:3 — He healeth (הָ֭רֹפֵא) the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
• Ecclesiastes 3:3 — A time to kill, and a time to heal (לִרְפּ֔וֹא); a time to break down, and a time to build up;
• Isaiah 6:10 — Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed (וְרָ֥פָא).
• Isaiah 19:22 — And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal (וְרָפ֑וֹא) it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
• Isaiah 19:22 — And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal (וּרְפָאָֽם) them.
• Isaiah 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth (יִרְפָּֽא) the stroke of their wound.
• Isaiah 53:5 — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (נִרְפָּא).
• Isaiah 57:18 — I have seen his ways, and will heal (וְאֶרְפָּאֵ֑הוּ) him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
• Isaiah 57:19 — I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal (וּרְפָאתִֽיו) him.
• Jeremiah 3:22 — Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal (אֶרְפָּ֖ה) your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
• Jeremiah 6:14 — They have healed (וַֽיְרַפְּא֞וּ) also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
• Jeremiah 8:11 — For they have healed (וַיְרַפּ֞וּ) the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
• Jeremiah 8:22 — Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician (רֹפֵ֖א) there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
• Jeremiah 15:18 — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed (הֵֽרָפֵ֔א)? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
• Jeremiah 17:14 — Heal (רְפָאֵ֤נִי) me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.