Strong's Hebrew · H7495
H7495 râphâʼ
רָפָא
raw-faw'
to heal
râphâʼ appears 67 times in Scripture, including Genesis 20:17 and Exodus 15:26. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
In the King James Version
cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, × thoroughly, make whole. See H7503 (רָפָה).
Derivation
or רָפָה; a primitive root;
Appears 67 times in Scripture
“Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—”
“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.”
“The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.””
“When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals,”
“And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
