רָפָא râphâʼ — properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
Translated in the KJV as cure, heal, physician, repair, × thoroughly, make whole. See H7503.
or רָפָה; a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure.
râphâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Participle (active) 9Imperative 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Wayyiqtol 3Infinitive construct 3Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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 to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 5Infinitive construct 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Wayyiqtol 1Cohortative 1
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
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 shall pronounce him clean.
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;
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 4Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive absolute 1
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 shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
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 was broken down.
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; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 3
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 of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
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.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
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 Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›