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