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STRONGS NUMBER H4832
Transliteration: marpe
Phonetic Spelling: (mar-pay')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a healing, cure, health
Meaning: curative, a medicine, a cure, deliverance, placidity
Word Summary
marpe: a healing, cure, health
Original Word: מַרְפֵאTransliteration: marpe
Phonetic Spelling: (mar-pay')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a healing, cure, health
Meaning: curative, a medicine, a cure, deliverance, placidity
Strong's Concordance
incurable, healing, remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding From rapha'; properly, curative, i.e. Literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity -- ((in-))cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.
see HEBREW rapha'
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4832. marpe
מַרְמֵּה מַרְמֵּא, noun masculineEcclesiastes 10:4 healing, cure, health (usually figurative); — absolute מַרְמֵּא Jeremiah 14:19 +, מַרְמֵּה 8:15; construct מַרְמֵּא Proverbs 15:4; —
1 healing, cure, of national woes, Jeremiah 8:15; 14:19b ("" שָׁלוֺם), 36:6 (+ אֲרֻכָה); especially מ לָנוּ ׳אֵין 14:19a there is no cure for us, מ לְאֵין ׳עַד2 Chronicles 36:16.
2 figurative of person, health, profit, Proverbs 4:22 ("" חַיִּים), 12:18; 13:17; 16:24; with spiritual implication Malachi 3:20; מ ׳אֵין 6:15 = 29:1; מ ׳לֵב 14:30 a mind of health (healthy, composed, mind), compare ׳מ alone = composure Ecclesiastes 10:4; ׳מ לְשׁוֺן Eccl 15:4 healing of the tongue, = a soothing tongue (Toy).
3 literally, of disease, מ ׳לְאֵין2 Chronicles 21:18.