אֲרוּכָה
a.ru.khah
“health”
Definition
wholeness (literally or figuratively)
or אֲרֻכָה; feminine passive participle of H748 (אָרַךְ) (in the sense of restoring to soundness);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
אֲרוּכָה appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
So the workmen labored, and in their hands the repair work progressed. They restored the house of God according to its specifications, and they reinforced it.
Then your light will break forth like the dawn,and your healing will come quickly.Your righteousness will go before you,and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds,declares the LORD,because they call you an outcast,Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
Is there no balm in Gilead?Is no physician there?Why then has the health of the daughter of my peoplenot been restored?
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.