BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G2395
iatros — physician
ἰατρός, -οὔ, ὁ (ἰάομαι), [in LXX for רָפָא ;] a physician: Mat.9:12, Mrk.2:17 5:26, Luk.4:23 5:31 8:43 (om. WH, R, mg.), Col.4:14 (on the status of physicians, see MM, Exp., xv.).† (AS)
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7495
ra.pah — to heal
1) to heal, make healthful 1a) (Qal) to heal 1a1) of God 1a2) healer, physician (of men) 1a3) of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig) 1a4) of individual distresses (fig) 1b) (Niphal) to be healed 1b1) literal (of persons) 1b2) of water, pottery 1b3) of national hurts (fig) 1b4) of personal distress (fig) 1c) (Piel) to heal 1c1) literal 1c2) of national defects or hurts (fig) 1d) (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)
58 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H457
e.lil — idol
1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless 1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination 1b) of false gods
17 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7706
iatreion — a physician's fee
a physician's fee
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Asa, afflicted with some bodily malady, “sought not to the Lord but to the physicians” (2 Chr. 16:12). The “physicians” were those who “practised heathen arts of magic, disavowing recognized methods of cure, and dissociating the healing art from dependence on the God of Israel. The sin of Asa was not, therefore, in seeking medical advice, as we understand the phrase, but in forgetting Jehovah.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
