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# רְפוּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7499

**remedy** — used 3 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

remedy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7499/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְפֻאָה: n.f. remedy, medicine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7499/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. remedy, medicine;—pl. abs. רְפֻאֹת Ez 30:21 Je 30:13, -וֹת 46:11 (all fig.).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 30:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.13/#tree)

אֵֽין־דָּ֥ן דִּינֵ֖ךְ לְמָז֑וֹר רְפֻא֥וֹת תְּעָלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].pleads cause your to a.sore medications healing there.\[are\].not for you

*JPS 1917:* None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.

[Jeremiah 46:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.11/#tree)

עֲלִ֤י גִלְעָד֙ וּקְחִ֣י צֳרִ֔י בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־מִצְרָ֑יִם לַשָּׁוְא֙ הִרְבֵּ֣ית רְפֻא֔וֹת תְּעָלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* go.up Gilead and acquire balm O.virgin of.the.daughter of.Egypt for (the) vanity you.have.multiplied medications healing there.\[is\].not for you

*JPS 1917:* Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no cure for thee.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7499/): 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).