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מַרְפֵּא

marpe · healing, remedy

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4832 · appears 16 times in the Bible

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What it means

marpe (מַרְפֵּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “healing, remedy”.

Remedy, healing: what cures a sickness or a wound; also the calm that brings relief. "Without remedy" is what can no longer be cured.

How to say it

mar·pe

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. What heals a wound; without remedy is without any possibility of cure.
  2. A gentle calm that heals, like that of a mild tongue.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • healing ×11
  • calm ×2
  • calmness ×1
  • cure ×1
  • remedy ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • 2 Chronicles 21:18

    After all this YHWH struck him in his bowels with a disease for which there was no cure.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16

    But they kept mocking the messengers of Elohim, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the fury of YHWH rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

  • Proverbs 4:22

    For they are life to those who find them, and to all their flesh healing.

  • Proverbs 6:15

    Therefore suddenly his calamity will come; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no healing.

  • Proverbs 12:18

    There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is healing.

  • Proverbs 13:17

    A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful envoy is healing.

  • Proverbs 14:30

    The life of the flesh is a calm heart, but rot of the bones is envy.

  • Proverbs 15:4

    A calm tongue is a tree of life, but crookedness in it is a breaking of the spirit.

  • Proverbs 16:24

    A honeycomb are pleasant sayings, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

  • Proverbs 29:1

    A man of reproofs who hardens his neck will suddenly be broken, and there will be no healing.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:4

    If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness lays to rest great sins.

  • Jeremiah 8:15

    We hoped for peace, but there is no good; for a time of healing, and look, terror!

  • Jeremiah 14:19

    Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there is no good; for a time of healing, and look, terror!

  • 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.

  • Malachi 4:2

    But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings; and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

And 1 more times.