# רָפָא (rafa)

Israeli respelling: ra-fa. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7495. 62 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure

King James renderings: cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, [idiom] thoroughly, make whole. See H7503 (רָפָה).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rafa-h7495

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/17) — So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
- [Genesis 50:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/2) — And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- [Exodus 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/26) — And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear…
- [Exodus 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/19) — If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and sha…
- [Leviticus 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/18) — The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
- [Leviticus 13:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/37) — But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest…
- [Leviticus 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/3) — And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
- [Leviticus 14:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/48) — And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: th…
- [Numbers 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/12/13) — And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
- [Deuteronomy 28:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/27) — The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be hea…
- [Deuteronomy 28:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/35) — The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of…
- [Deuteronomy 32:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/39) — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can de…
- [1 Samuel 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/3) — And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye sha…
- [1 Kings 18:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/30) — And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that w…
- [2 Kings 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/21) — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; the…
- [2 Kings 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/22) — So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
- [2 Kings 8:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/29) — And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king…
- [2 Kings 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/15) — But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria…
- [2 Kings 20:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/5) — Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have s…
- [2 Kings 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/8) — And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the thi…
- [2 Chronicles 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/14) — If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will…
- [2 Chronicles 16:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/16/12) — And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he so…
- [2 Chronicles 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/6) — And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And…
- [2 Chronicles 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/20) — And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
- [Job 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/18) — For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
- [Job 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/4) — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- [Psalms 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/6/2) — Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- [Psalms 30:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/30/2) — O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
- [Psalms 41:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/4) — I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
- [Psalms 60:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/2) — Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
- [Psalms 103:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/103/3) — Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
- [Psalms 107:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/20) — He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
- [Psalms 147:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/3) — He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
- [Ecclesiastes 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/3) — A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
- [Isaiah 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/6/10) — Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,…
- [Isaiah 19:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/22) — And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and…
- [Isaiah 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/26) — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, i…
- [Isaiah 53:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/5) — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stri…
- [Isaiah 57:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/18) — I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
- [Isaiah 57:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/19) — I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
- [Jeremiah 3:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/22) — Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
- [Jeremiah 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/14) — They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- [Jeremiah 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/11) — For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- [Jeremiah 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/22) — 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 15:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/18) — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters tha…
- [Jeremiah 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/14) — Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
- [Jeremiah 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/11) — And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, t…
- [Jeremiah 30:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/17) — For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This…
- [Jeremiah 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/6) — Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
- [Jeremiah 51:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/8) — Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
- [Jeremiah 51:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/9) — We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth u…
- [Lamentations 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/13) — What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I…
- [Ezekiel 34:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/4) — The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither…
- [Ezekiel 47:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/8) — Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought…
- [Ezekiel 47:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/9) — And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be…
- [Ezekiel 47:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/11) — But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
- [Hosea 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/13) — When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal yo…
- [Hosea 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/1) — Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
- [Hosea 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/1) — When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and…
- [Hosea 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/11/3) — I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
- [Hosea 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/14/4) — I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
- [Zechariah 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/16) — For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal th…