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Strong's #2390 - ἰάομαι
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- to cure, heal
- to make whole
- to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation
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ἰάομαι,
imper. ἰῶ (v. infr.), Ion. inf. ἰᾶσθαι Hp. Loc.Hom. 24 (ἰῆσθαι v.l. in Id. Morb.Sacr. 13), Cypr. ἰ j ᾶσθαι Inscr.Cypr. 135.3H.: fut. ἰάσομαι E. HF 1107, Aeschin. 3.69; Ion. and ἰήσομαι Od. 9.525, Archil. 13, (ἐξ-) Hp. Morb. 1.6: aor. ἰασάμην E. Fr. 1072, Pl. Phd. 89a; Ion. ἰησάμην Il. 5.899, Hp. Int. 2: — Pass. (v. infr.). [ ῑ- in Hom., etc.; also ῐ, E. Hipp. 597 ]: —
1. heal, cure, in pres. and impf., attempt to cure, treat, of persons or bodies, etc., τινα Il. 12.2, Hdt. 3.134, etc.; τοὺς κάμνοντας Pl. Plt. 299a, cf. 293b; ὀφθαλμόν Od. 9.525; τὸ σῶμα S. Tr. 1210: abs., Od. 9.520, Il. 5.899: prov., ὁ τρώσας ἰάσεται Mantiss.Prov. 2.28.
2. cure. treat, of diseases, νόσους Pi. P. 3.46, cf. E. Hipp. 597, Pl. Prt. 340e, Chrm. 156b, etc.; σμύρνῃσι ἰ. τὰ ἕλκεα Hdt. 7.181: metaph., remedy, δύσγνοιαν, ἀδικίαν ἰᾶσθαι, E. HF 1107, Or. 650; ἀτυχίας Isoc. 6.101; δωροδόκημα Aeschin. 3.69; ἀσάφειαν Arr. Tact. 1.3: prov., μὴ τῷ κακῷ τὸ κακὸν ἰῶ, i.e. do not make bad worse, Hdt. 3.53, cf. Th. 5.65; μὴ κακοῖς ἰῶ κακά A. Fr. 349; κακοῖς ὅταν θέλωσιν ἰᾶσθαι κακά S. Fr. 77: abs., οὔτε τι γὰρ κλαίων ἰήσομαι Archil. 13.
3. cure the effects of, counteract, ἄκρατος ἰ. τὸ κώνειον Plu. 2.653a.
4. repair, τὸ βλαβέν Pl. Lg. 933e; τὴν φύσιν τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην Id. Smp. 191d; θυσιαστήριον LXX 3 Ki. 18.32; δίκελλαν Lib. Decl. 27.3. II Act. only aor.1 ἰάσαμεν Gal. 10.453; part. ἰάσαντες Sch. E. Hec. 1236: aor. ἰάθην is always Pass., be healed, recover, And. 2.9, AP 6.330(Aeschin.), IG 4.951.113(Epid.), etc.; ἀπὸ τῶν νόσων Luke 6:17; Ion. ἰήθην Hp. Mul. 1.3, Int. 1: fut. ἰαθήσομαι Luc. Asin. 14, Gp. 12.25.3, Gal. 10.377; ἰάσομαι Aristid. 2.317 J.: pf. ἴᾱμαι Mark 5:29.
ἰάομαι, ἰαωμαι; (perhaps from ἰός, Lob. Technol., p. 157f; cf. Vanicek, p. 87); a deponent verb, whose present, imperfect ἰωμην, future ἰάσομαι, and 1 aorist middle ἰασάμην have an active significance, but whose perfect passive ἴαμαι, 1 aorist passive ἰάθην, and 1 future passive ἰαθήσομαι have a passive significance (cf. Krüger, § 40, under the word; (Veitch, under the word; Buttmann, 52 (46); Winers Grammar, § 38, 7 c.)); (from Homer down); the Sept. for רָפָא; to heal, cure: τινα, Luke 4:18 R L brackets;
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ἰάομαι , -ῶμαι ,
[in LXX for H7495 (Genesis 20:17, al.), exc. Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 61:1 (H2280);]
to heal: c. acc pers., Luke 5:17; Luke 6:19; Luke 9:2; Luke 9:11; Luke 9:42; Luke 14:4; Luke 22:51, John 4:47, Acts 9:34; Acts 10:38; Acts 28:8; pass., Matthew 8:8; Matthew 8:13; Matthew 15:28, Luke 7:7; Luke 8:47; Luke 17:15, John 5:13; id. seq. ἀπό ', Mark 5:29, Luke 6:17; fig., of spiritual healing, Matthew 13:15, John 12:40, Acts 28:27 (LXX); pass., Hebrews 12:13, James 5:16, 1 Peter 2:24.†
SYN.: θεραπεύω G2323, q.v.
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As distinguished from θεραπεύω ";treat medically"; (see s.v. θεραπεύω and cf. Acts 28:8 f.) ἰάομαι denotes ";heal,"; as in Syll 802.113 (referred to s.v. ἴαμα) ανὴρ δάκτυλον ἰάθη ὑπὸ ὄφιος, and the similar 803.7 τοῦτο ]ν τυφλὸν ἐόντα ἰάσατο : cf. also the magic text BGU IV. 1026xxii. 15 αἱμάροϊαν ἰᾶται. On the Lukan usage of the verb see Hobart, p. 8 ff., and on the ";aoristic present"; in Acts 9:34 see Proleg. p. 119. Thayer’s hint of a connexion with ἰός is not supported by modern philologists, see Boisacq, p. 362.
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