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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - רָפָא

רָפָא

H7495

Transliteration: râphâʼ

Pronunciation: raw-faw'

Definition: cure


Original: רפה רפא

Transliteration: râphâ' râphâh

Phonetic: raw-faw'

BDB Definition:

  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 (figuratively)
      4. of individual distresses (figuratively)
    2. (Niphal) to be healed
      1. literal (of persons)
      2. of water, pottery
      3. of national hurts (figuratively)
      4. of personal distress (figuratively)
    3. (Piel) to heal
      1. literal
      2. of national defects or hurts (figuratively)
    4. (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 2196

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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