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H724 · Hebrew · Old Testament
אֲרוּכָה
Arukah
Noun, feminine
Healing, restoration, new flesh

Definition

Arukah (אֲרוּכָה) describes the healing and restoration of a wound — specifically, the growth of new flesh over an injury. The word carries the sense of complete, organic healing rather than merely covering over a wound. It is used both literally for physical healing and metaphorically for national and spiritual restoration.

Theological Significance

Arukah beautifully illustrates the gospel's promise of thorough healing. The prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah used this word to promise that God would bring complete restoration to broken Israel — not a superficial patching, but genuine new growth. This healing comes through the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53:5): "by His wounds we are healed."

Key Scripture Passages

2 Chronicles 24:13
So the workmen labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.
Isaiah 58:8
Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you.
Jeremiah 8:22
"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?"
Jeremiah 30:17
"For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal," declares the LORD.
Nehemiah 4:7
But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.

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