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# גֵּהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1456

**healing** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

healing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1456/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּהָה: n.f. healing, cure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1456/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. healing, cure—גֵּהָ֑ה Pr 17:22 לֵב שָׂמֵחַ יֵיטִיב ג׳ cf. Now.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: healing (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 17:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.22/#tree)

לֵ֣ב שָׂ֭מֵחַ יֵיטִ֣ב גֵּהָ֑ה וְר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה תְּיַבֶּשׁ־גָּֽרֶם׃

*Word for word:* a.heart joyful it.makes.good healing and a.spirit stricken it.dries.up \[the\].bone\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1456.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1456/): 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).