arucha · healing, restoration

What it means

arucha (אֲרוּכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “healing, restoration”.

Restoration, healing: the new flesh that closes a wound. Said also of a wall or a work being repaired.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. New flesh that closes a wound; the repair of a wall.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• healing ×2
• recovery ×2
• restoration ×2

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3

• 2 Chronicles 24:13

  Those doing the work worked, and the restoration of the work advanced in their hand; they set up the house of Elohim according to its measure and strengthened it.

• Nehemiah 4:7

  It happened that when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward, that the breaches had begun to be closed, they burned with anger greatly;

• Isaiah 58:8

  Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will sprout quickly; and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of YHWH will gather you.

• Jeremiah 8:22

  Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come up?

• Jeremiah 30:17

  For I will bring up recovery for you, and from your wounds I will heal you, declares YHWH; for ‘Driven Away’ they have called you: ‘Zion is she; no one seeks her.’

• Jeremiah 33:6

  Look, I am bringing up for it recovery and healing, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and faithfulness.