What Does 2 Chronicles 22:6 Mean?
And he turned back to be healed in Jezreel because of the blows that had struck him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
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King James wording
King James Version
And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.THE KEY
The man seeking healing is still sick: recovery begins inside the illness, not after it has disappeared.
THE MEANING
A wounded body can be seeking healing and still be sick; receiving care does not erase what the violence did. The verse holds weakness and another person’s visit in the same moment. Your movement toward healing can be real while sickness is still present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that needing care means healing has not begun: the same person is seeking healing while still sick.
THE ROOT
לְהִתְרַפֵּא
lehitrappe
GROWS FROM
רפא
To heal, recover, or restore.
“healed” in this verse is lehitrappe. The verb names recovery being sought, not wounds already gone. Its word family connects healing with the healer and remedy; the near echo רָפָה (raphah, release or let the hands drop) lets recovery be heard as loosening while the wound remains visible.
ALSO GROWS
rofe: Healer, physician.
רֹפֵא
The healer belongs to the same word family as the act of being healed, keeping care within the language of recovery.
refu’ah: Healing, remedy.
רְפוּאָה
The word can name both healing and what brings it, so recovery is a process met by care.
חָלָה
chalah
GROWS FROM
חלה
To be sick or grow weak.
The verse places “to be healed” and “was sick” in separate clauses, while the name identifies one body in both. Healing is sought while weakness remains.
ALSO GROWS
choli: Sickness, illness.
חֹלִי
This noun gives the condition a name alongside the act of seeking healing.
machalah: Disease, illness.
מַחֲלָה
The branch keeps sickness within the same word family as the verse’s description of the man’s condition.
הַמַּכִּים
hamakkim
GROWS FROM
נכה
To strike or smite.
“blows that had struck him” in this verse is hamakkim. The word keeps the injury connected to the act of striking. Healing is sought for a body marked by violence, not for an unnamed weakness.
ALSO GROWS
hikkah: To strike, smite.
הִכָּה
The verse uses this root for the blows inflicted on the man.
makkah: Blow, wound, plague.
מַכָּה
This branch names the injury carried into the search for healing.
THE PATTERN
Healing can be real while injury and weakness remain present.
He mends the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; deliver me, and I shall be delivered, for you are my praise.And he came near to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and lifted him onto his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and tended him.THE THREAD
He mends the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.Psalm 147:3 uses רֹפֵא (rofe, heals), from the same root רפא as “to be healed” here. The shared word holds wounds and brokenness within the language of healing, widening the verse’s recovery beyond a body’s visible injury.
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