What Does 2 Chronicles 22:6 Mean in the King James?
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 analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
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.
“wounds” 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 healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.THE THREAD
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth 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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