ἰάομαι
to heal
‘to heal’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 verses where G2390 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 8:13 ἰάθη aor pass ind 3sg Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.
- Matthew 15:28 ἰάθη aor pass ind 3sg Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ιαομαι (iáomai) means “to heal.” First canonically at Matthew 8:8, it enters the text early. It appears 25 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (44%), then Matthew and Acts. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2390 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 25
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 25 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #530
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 530 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 25 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 25 distinct verses.
- Gospels 18 verses · 72%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 15 verses · 60%
- Johannine 2 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Healed 6×, Heal 4×, I should heal 3×
- American Standard Version: Healed 4×, Heal 3×, I should heal 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Healed 4×, Heal 3×, I would heal 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Heal 3×, Be healed 2×, He healed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2390 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2390 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2390 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2390 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to cure, heal
- to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation
Word origin
Origin: middle voice of apparently a primary verb
Middle voice of apparently a primary verb; to cure (literally or figuratively): - heal make whole.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms G2390 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2390, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ιαομαι appears 55 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 52 verses in 18 books.
- 55
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 52
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 20:17 ἰάομαι
- Exodus 15:26 ἰάομαι
- Leviticus 14:3 ἰάομαι
- Numbers 12:13 ἰάομαι
- Deuteronomy 28:27 ἰάομαι
- 1 Samuel 6:3 ἰάομαι
- 1 Kings 18:32 ἰάομαι
- 2 Kings 2:21 ἰάομαι
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 ἰάομαι
- Job 5:18 ἰάομαι
- Psalms 6:3 ἰάομαι
- Proverbs 12:18 ἰάομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2390) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 52. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 20:17 ἰάομαι Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
- Exodus 15:26 ἰάομαι and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
- Leviticus 14:3 ἰάομαι and the priest shall go forth out of the camp. The priest shall examine him, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
- Leviticus 14:48 ἰάομαι "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
- Numbers 12:13 ἰάομαι Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 ἰάομαι Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 ἰάομαι Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 30:3 ἰάομαι that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
- Deuteronomy 32:39 ἰάομαι See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
- 1 Samuel 6:3 ἰάομαι They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."
- 1 Kings 18:32 ἰάομαι With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
- 2 Kings 2:21 ἰάομαι He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.
- 2 Kings 2:22 ἰάομαι So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
- 2 Kings 20:5 ἰάομαι Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 20:8 ἰάομαι Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 ἰάομαι if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 30:20 ἰάομαι Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
- Job 5:18 ἰάομαι For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.
- Job 12:21 ἰάομαι He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.
- Psalms 6:3 ἰάομαι My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
- Psalms 29:3 ἰάομαι Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
- Psalms 40:5 ἰάομαι Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
- Psalms 59:4 ἰάομαι I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
- Psalms 102:3 ἰάομαι For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
- Psalms 106:20 ἰάομαι Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.
- Psalms 146:3 ἰάομαι Don't put your trust in princes, Each a son of man in whom there is no help.
- Proverbs 12:18 ἰάομαι There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
- Proverbs 18:9 ἰάομαι One who is slack in his work Is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
- Proverbs 26:18 ἰάομαι Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
- Ecclesiastes 3:3 ἰάομαι A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
- Isaiah 6:10 ἰάομαι Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed."
- Isaiah 7:4 ἰάομαι Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 19:22 ἰάομαι Yahweh will strike Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.
- Isaiah 30:26 ἰάομαι Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
- Isaiah 53:5 ἰάομαι But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
- Isaiah 57:18 ἰάομαι I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
- Isaiah 57:19 ἰάομαι I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.
- Isaiah 61:1 ἰάομαι The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;
- Jeremiah 3:22 ἰάομαι Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
- Jeremiah 6:14 ἰάομαι They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 15:18 ἰάομαι Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
- Jeremiah 17:14 ἰάομαι Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
- Jeremiah 19:11 ἰάομαι and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.
- Jeremiah 28:8 ἰάομαι The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
- Jeremiah 28:9 ἰάομαι The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.
- Lamentations 2:13 ἰάομαι What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
- Hosea 5:13 ἰάομαι When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, And sent to king Jareb: But he is not able to heal you, Neither will he cure you of your wound.
- Hosea 6:1 ἰάομαι "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For he has torn us to pieces, And he will heal us; He has injured us, And he will bind up our wounds.
- Hosea 7:1 ἰάομαι When I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, Also the wickedness of Samaria; For they commit falsehood, And the thief enters in, And the gang of robbers ravages outside.
- Hosea 11:3 ἰάομαι Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; But they didn't know that I healed them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2390) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
