Hebrew word · Strong H7495
Jehovah Rapha means “the LORD who heals you”. The phrase comes from Exodus 15:26, right after the crossing of the Red Sea: “for I am the LORD that healeth thee”. Rapha is the Hebrew verb for healing (H7495), used of the body, the land and the soul.
רָפָא
râphâʼ · transliteration · raw-faw' · pronunciation
At Marah the people found bitter water, and God made it sweet (Exodus 15:23-25). Then he introduces himself as the one who heals — not as one remedy among others, but as the source of his people's health. The King James translates rapha as “heal” and “cure”; Strong's lexicon says its first sense is to mend, to stitch together what was torn.
The Psalms repeat the promise: he “healeth all thy diseases” (Psalm 103:3) and “healeth the broken in heart” (Psalm 147:3). And Isaiah says of the suffering Servant: “with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). Jehovah Rapha is not one of the Bible's compound names, like Jehovah Jireh; it is a way of summing up this revelation.
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.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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