מַרְפֵּא

2 Chronicles 21:18 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ [was] healing

After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

2 Chronicles 36:16 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ [was] healing

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Here: A medical word for a cure. The nation is pictured as a patient whose illness has gone past treatment. It echoes God's promise in 2 Chr 7:14, 'I will heal their land.'

Proverbs 4:22 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ health

For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.

Here: A noun from the root 'to heal'. It means healing, remedy, soundness. The teaching works on the whole person like a medicine or tonic that keeps the body sound. The word comes last, matching 'life' at the start.

Proverbs 6:15 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ פ [will be] healing

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

Here: "Healing" in the sense of a cure or mending. The brokenness is like a fracture or a smashed jar that nobody can set or repair. The verse ends on this word with nothing after it.

Proverbs 12:18 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ [is] healing

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Here: 'Is healing': a cure, a remedy that makes something whole again. Placed against 'stabbings', it suggests that wise speech closes the very wounds careless speech opens. The word can also suggest calm or gentleness (14:30; 15:4).

Proverbs 13:17 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ [is] healing

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Here: The line has no verb: the envoy is healing, a remedy. Elsewhere in Proverbs the word also carries the sense of calm or soothing (14:30; 15:4). So he mends and settles situations, and the relationship between sender and receiver stays whole.

Proverbs 14:30 מַרְפֵּ֑א healing

A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Here: "A heart of marpēʾ" is a heart marked by health and calm: settled, unagitated, whole. The word means both "healing" and "composure", and it sets up the contrast with the burning passion at the end of the verse.

Proverbs 15:4 מַרְפֵּ֣א healing of

A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

Here: A noun from the root 'to heal'. It is joined to 'tongue' in a 'healing of tongue' phrase, meaning a tongue that heals or brings health. A related sense, 'calm, composure', may also be heard here. That is why translators choose 'soothing' or 'gentle'.

Proverbs 16:24 וּמַרְפֵּ֥א and healing

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Here: 'And a remedy', meaning healing or restored health. Proverbs often uses this word for the effect of wise speech (12:18; 15:4).

Proverbs 29:1 מַרְפֵּֽא׃ [will be] healing

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Here: A medical word: cure or mending, from the verb "to heal". After the break, nothing can set it. The same closing phrase appears in Proverbs 6:15 and in 2 Chronicles 36:16.

Ecclesiastes 10:4 מַרְפֵּ֔א calmness

If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.

Here: Composure, a gentle and unruffled manner. The word also sounds like 'healing' and probably carries that note too: calmness is the remedy that soothes the situation.

Jeremiah 8:15 מַרְפֵּ֖ה healing

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 14:19 מַרְפֵּ֑א מַרְפֵּ֖א healing

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

Here: A cure or the recovery itself, from the root 'to heal'. Applied to the nation, it means the wound of disaster has no treatment.

Jeremiah 33:6 וּמַרְפֵּ֖א and healing

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.

Here: 'And cure'. The noun comes from the root for 'heal' (rāpāʾ). In Jeremiah 8:15 and 14:19 the people 'waited for a time of marpēʾ, but there was terror'. That time now arrives.

Malachi 4:2 וּמַרְפֵּ֖א and healing

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Here: A cure or restoration to wholeness, from the root 'to heal'. It answers Jeremiah's lament, 'we hoped for a time of healing, but there was terror' (Jer 8:15; 14:19).