Health

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HEALTH.—The word formerly covered (a) healing, (b) spiritual soundness, (c) general well-being. For (a) cf. Pro_12:18; Pro_13:17, Jer_8:15, where it represents the word usually translated ‘healing.’ (b) In Psa_42:11; Psa_43:5; Psa_67:2, and frequently in Pr. Bk. [Note: r. Bk. Prayer Book.] Version, it stands for the word otherwise tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘salvation’ or ‘help.’ In these usages it is active. (c) The wider passive use, including general well-being of body and soul, not merely the absence of disease, is illustrated by Act_27:34, 3Jn_1:2. Cf. General Confession, ‘There is no health in us.’ See Medicine.
C. W. Emmet.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

helth (שׁלם, shālōm, ישׁוּעה, yeshū‛āh, רפאוּת, riph'ūth, ארוּכה, 'ărūkhāh; σωτηρία, sōtērı́a, ὑγιαίνω, hugiaı́nō): Shālōm is part of the formal salutation still common in Palestine. In this sense it is used in Gen_43:28; 2Sa_20:9; the stem word means ?peace,? and is used in many varieties of expression relating to security, success and good bodily health. Yeshū‛āh, which specifically means deliverance or help, occurs in the refrain of Psa_42:11; Psa_43:5, as well as in Psa_67:2; in the American Standard Revised Version it is rendered ?help.? Riph'ūth is literally, ?healing,? and is found only in Pro_3:8. Marpē' also means healing of the body, but is used in a figurative sense as of promoting soundness of mind and moral character in Pro_4:22; Pro_12:18; Pro_13:17; Pro_16:24, as also in Jer_8:15, where the Revised Version (British and American) renders it ?healing.? 'Ǎrūkhāh is also used in the same figurative sense in Isa_58:8; Jer_8:22; Jer_30:17; Jer_33:6; literally means ?repairing or restoring?; it is the word used of the repair of the wall of Jerusalem by Nehemiah (chapter 4).
The word ?health? occurs twice in the New Testament: in Paul's appeal to his shipmates to take food (Act_27:34), he says it is for their sotēria, literally, ?safety?; so the American Standard Revised Version, the King James Version ?health.? The verb hugianinō is used in 3Jo_1:2, in the apostle's salutation to Gaius.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Psa_42:11 (a) This word is used to express the joy of the heart and the peace of the soul which are so easily reflected in the face. It tells of the splendid condition of the heart and life of that one who becomes a victorious and praising Christian. (See Psa_43:5).

Psa_67:2 (a) This type is used to indicate the fact that the prosperity which GOD gives because of godly living gives strength and blessing to those who are walking with the Lord. The society and the business life of these will be in happy, strong, excellent condition.

Pro_12:18 (a) By this figure we understand that those who speak wisely and well to others bring blessing to the hearers so that they rejoice in life and are prosperous in their souls. (See also Pro_13:17).

Isa_58:8 (a) This is a description of the healthy, holy and godly person who fulfills the description found in verse Isa_58:7 and so reveals the fact to others that he is growing in grace and in the knowledge of GOD and in usefulness.

Jer_8:22 (a) By this figure we understand that although GOD had remedies for Israel's needs, these remedies were not used and so the nation was weak, sickly and depressed.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.

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