Definition

properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity

Etymology

from H7495 (רָפָא);

Where the KJV renders it

• (in-)cure(-able)
• healing(-lth)
• remedy
• sound
• wholesome
• yielding

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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