Hebrew verb · H7495
רָפָא
rapharaw-faw'
to heal
67 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râphâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7495is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 18 of 39Old Testament books
- 64spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7495
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
The King James renders it: cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, [idiom] thoroughly, make whole. See H7503 (רָפָה).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
rapha is rendered "to heal". It stands 67 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
- The Greek text spells it sixty-four different ways.
The first use
Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
Genesis 20:17וַיִּרְפָּ֨א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eighteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will heal3
- it has been healed3
- to be healed3
- to get himself healed3
- and he healed2
- and I will heal him2
- and they have healed2
- heal2
- heal me2
- I will heal2
- it was healed2
- the physicians2
and 38 more, 67 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 67, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
64 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א3
- נִרְפָּ֥א2
- אֶרְפָּ֔א1
- אֶרְפָּא֙1
- אֶרְפָּאֵ֖ךְ1
- אֶרְפָּ֖ה1
- בָּרֹפְאִֽים׃1
- הֵֽרָפֵ֔א1
- הָ֝רֹפֵ֗א1
- הָ֭רֹפֵא1
- הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔ים1
- הָרֹפְאִ֖ים1
and 52 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVNp3ms
- preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/VNcc
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vtcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- Hc/Vpw3mp2Hc/Vpw3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms2Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HTd/Vqrmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
Genesis
three uses
Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
- וַיִּרְפָּ֨אvaiyirpa'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he healed
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
- הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔יםharofeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the physicians
- הָרֹפְאִ֖יםharofeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the physicians
Exodus
three uses
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- רֹפְאֶֽךָ׃ סrofeekhaverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: heals you
then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
- וְרַפֹּ֥אverapo'conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive absolutetagged: and certainly to heal
- יְרַפֵּֽא׃ סyerape'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will have healed
Leviticus
four uses
When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals,
- וְנִרְפָּֽא׃venirpa'Hc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be healed
If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.
- נִרְפָּ֥אnirpa'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been healed
The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,
- נִרְפָּ֥אnirpa'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been healed
If, however, the priest comes and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.
- נִרְפָּ֖אnirpa'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been healed
Numbers
one use
So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
- רְפָ֥אrefa'verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: heal
Deuteronomy
three uses
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
- לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃leherafe'preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be healed
The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
- לְהֵרָפֵ֑אleherafe'preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be healed
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- אֶרְפָּ֔אʾerpa'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I heal
1 Samuel
one use
They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
- תֵּרָֽפְאוּ֙terafeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be healed
1 Kings
one use
Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
- וַיְרַפֵּ֛אvayrape'Hc/Vpw3mstagged: and he repaired
2 Kings
six uses
and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”
- רִפִּ֙אתִי֙ripitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have healed
And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.
- וַיֵּרָפ֣וּvaiyerafuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they have been healed
So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
- לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣אlehitrape'preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to get himself healed
but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
- לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣אlehitrape'preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to get himself healed
“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
- רֹ֣פֶאrofe'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to heal
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
- יִרְפָּ֥אyirpa'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will heal
2 Chronicles
four uses
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- וְאֶרְפָּ֖אveerpa'HC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may heal
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
- בָּרֹפְאִֽים׃barofeimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: in the physicians
so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
- לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣אlehitrape'preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to get himself healed
And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
- וַיִּרְפָּ֖אvaiyirpa'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he healed
Job
two uses
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- תִּרְפֶּֽינָה׃tirpeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they heal
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
- רֹפְאֵ֖יrofeeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: physicians of
Psalms
seven uses
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- רְפָאֵ֥נִיrefaeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: heal me
O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
- וַתִּרְפָּאֵֽנִי׃vatirpaeniHc/Vqw2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you healed me
I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”
- רְפָאָ֥הrefaahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: heal
You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.
- רְפָ֖הrefahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: repair
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- הָ֝רֹפֵ֗אharofe'the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who heals
He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
- וְיִרְפָּאֵ֑םveyirpaemHC/Vqu3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he healed them
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- הָ֭רֹפֵאharofe'the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who healing
Ecclesiastes
one use
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
- לִרְפּ֔וֹאlirpo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to heal
Isaiah
seven uses
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
- וְרָ֥פָאverafa'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and someone will heal
And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
- וְרָפ֑וֹאverafo'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and healing
- וּרְפָאָֽם׃urefaamHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he will heal them
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
- יִרְפָּֽא׃ סyirpa'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will heal
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
- נִרְפָּא־nirpa'-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was healed
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
- וְאֶרְפָּאֵ֑הוּveerpaehuHC/Vqu1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will heal him
bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
- וּרְפָאתִֽיו׃urefativHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will heal him
Jeremiah
thirteen uses
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
- אֶרְפָּ֖הʾerpahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will heal
They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- וַֽיְרַפְּא֞וּvayrapeuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have healed
They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- וַיְרַפּ֞וּvayrapuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have healed
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- רֹפֵ֖אrofe'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a physician
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
- הֵֽרָפֵ֔אherafe'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be healed
Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
- רְפָאֵ֤נִיrefaeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: heal me
- וְאֵ֣רָפֵ֔אveerafe'HC/VNu1cstagged: so I may be healed
and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
- לְהֵרָפֵ֖הleherapehpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be repaired
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- אֶרְפָּאֵ֖ךְʾerpaekhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I will heal you
Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- וּרְפָאתִ֑יםurefatimHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will heal them
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
- תֵּרָפֵֽא׃terafe'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be healed
“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- רִפִּ֣ינוּripinuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we healed
- נִרְפָּ֔תָהnirpatahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was healed
Lamentations
one use
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
- יִרְפָּא־yirpa'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he heal
Ezekiel
four uses
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- רִפֵּאתֶ֗םripetemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have healed
And he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Sea, the water there becomes fresh.
- וְנִרְפּ֥וּvenirpeuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be healed
Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
- וְיֵרָֽפְאוּ֙veyerafeuHC/VNu3mptagged: so they may be healed
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
- יֵרָפְא֖וּyerafeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be healed
Hosea
five uses
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- לִרְפֹּ֣אlirpo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to heal
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- וְיִרְפָּאֵ֑נוּveyirpaenuHC/Vqu3ms/Sp1bptagged: and he will heal us
When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
- כְּרָפְאִ֣יkerafeipreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when heal I
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
- רְפָאתִֽים׃refatimverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I had healed them
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- אֶרְפָּא֙ʾerpa'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will heal
Zechariah
one use
For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
- יְרַפֵּ֑אyerape'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will heal
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