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# אֲרוּכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H724

**healing** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

healing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/724/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרוּכָה: n.f. healing restoration [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/724/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. healing of a wound, restoration (properly the new flesh that grows at the wounded spot, Arabic أَرِيكَةٌ; Fi JPh. xiii. 114–6, so Fl De on Is 58:8; v. also Di)—א׳ 2 Ch 24:13; Ne 4:1; אֲרֻכָה Je 30:17; 33:6; cstr. אֲרֻכַת Je 8:22; אֲרֻכָֽתְךָ Is 58:8;—always fig. healing, restoration of Israel Is 58:8, here c. vb. צָמַח, elsewhere c. עָלָה; Je 8:22 (‖ רָפָא), c. עָלָה Hiph., subj. י׳, 30:17; 33:6 (‖ id.) restoration of walls of temple 2 Ch 24:13, of walls of Jerusalem (cf. Fi supr.) Ne 4:1 (both c. עלה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: healing (3); \[the\] repair (2); the healing (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 8:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.22/#tree)

הַצֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּגִלְעָ֔ד אִם־רֹפֵ֖א אֵ֣ין שָׁ֑ם כִּ֗י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א עָֽלְתָ֔ה אֲרֻכַ֖ת בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* ? balm \[is\].there.not in Gilead or? a.physician \[is\].there.not there (dm) why? not has.it.come.up the.healing of.the.daughter my.people my

*JPS 1917:* Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

[Jeremiah 33:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.33.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.33.6/#tree)

הִנְנִ֧י מַעֲלֶה־לָּ֛הּ אֲרֻכָ֥ה וּמַרְפֵּ֖א וּרְפָאתִ֑ים וְגִלֵּיתִ֣י לָהֶ֔ם עֲתֶ֥רֶת שָׁל֖וֹם וֶאֱמֶֽת׃

*Word for word:* here I \[will\].bring.up for it healing and healing and I will.heal.them and I.will.uncover to them an.abundance of.well-being and faithfulness

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I will bring it healing and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/724.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/724/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).