Bible word study

Marpe (Strong’s H4832): Meaning in the Bible

Marpe (מַרְפֵּא) is the Hebrew word numbered H4832 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity. In the King James Bible it is translated (in-)cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome.

• Original wordמַרְפֵּא
• Transliterationmarpêʼ
• Pronunciationmar-pay'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4832
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H7495;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Marpe appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Marpe (H4832) stands behind 15 English renderings in 14 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (8), Jeremiah (4), 2 Chronicles (1).

How the King James Bible renders Marpe, by count

• health5 of 15 (33 percent)
• remedy3 of 15 (20 percent)
• healing2 of 15 (13 percent)
• cure1 of 15 (7 percent)
• sound1 of 15 (7 percent)
• wholesome1 of 15 (7 percent)

Three places to read Marpe

• 2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
• Ecclesiastes 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Marpe in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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