KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Soundness or well-being of body. Sense 2: Healing, cure, or restoration to soundness. Sense 3: Saving help or deliverance.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 43:28
Complete exact-word concordance
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
It shalbe health to thy nauill, and marrow to thy bones.
1611 marginal noteHebr. medicine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. watring, or moystning.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
1611 marginal noteHeb. medicine.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
There is that speaketh like the pearcings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
1611 marginal notePsal.57.5. & 59.8.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischiefe: but a faithfull ambassadour is health.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pleasant words are as an honycombe, sweete to the soule, and health to the bones.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Healing. Hence saving health, salvation.
That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound. Salvation or divine favor.
