Title: Terms of healing/ (Mark 16:18)
Content Divine Healing means that a Christian always lives in good health under God's guidance and grace, and that he or she is healed by God's power and grace even when sick. This gift of healing is the gospel that makes our bodies whole and strengthens our souls. Therefore our Lord Jesus said that every Christian will be able to experience the miracles of this gift. As the saying goes that they will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover (Mark 16:18), it is a natural privilege to pray or lay hands on someone to be healed. However, believing in divine healing does not mean refusing medicine and medicine. Through the gospel of Christian healing, you will receive salvation of the body as well as the salvation of the soul.
The word healing is not recorded in the Bible. But the saying that the disease is cured is found in many places. The word “healing oil” can be interpreted to mean that God heals diseases by means of the treatment of God. There is no such word in the Korean Dictionary or the Great Bible Encyclopedia. However, in the general meaning of “healing,” it is explained that a disease is cured by treatment in advance. If so, it is necessary to find out when the first use of the word shinyu began.
In 1925, missionary EAKilbourne published A Guide to Holiness with Missionary Kauman as editor. .
Therefore, when talking about Christian healing, it would be appropriate to use the term Divine Healing, which means always being healed by the love and power of God.
1. The Etymology of Shinyu
The Hebrew word for divine oil is 'marpe'. The meaning of this word is to heal (Jeremiah 14:19), heal (Jeremiah 8:15), heal the body and mind (Proverbs 12:18, 13:17, 16:24), and be saved from disasters, etc. is shown as As such, the meaning of this word is used in various ways in the Old Testament. And in Greek it is called 'iasis'. The meaning of this word is expressed in the meaning of being healed (Mt 8:8), healing the sick (Lk 9:2, Heb 12:13), and restoring evil things in the heart (Mt 13:15). . The original word for shinyu in the New and Old Testaments has the meaning of recovering mentally wrong things in addition to the meaning of healing from disease. Let's look at some etymologies as follows.
A. Etymology of Hebrew
There are two words in the Old Testament that are used synonymously with healing as a noun. One is arukhah and the other is marpe.
1) arukhah
‘Arukha’ is used in the Old Testament (Jeremiah 8:22, 30:17, 33:6) with the meaning of a long bandage used by doctors to heal wounds. At the same time, the meaning of this word is to restore health, and it has the meaning of treatment, cure, recovery, restoration, recovery, reclamation, recovery of rights, victory, disease gradual improvement, recovery period, and has a literal and symbolic meaning. The meaning of wholeness is implied.
2) marpe
In the Old Testament (Jeremiah 14:19, 2 Chronicles 21:18), the word marpe is used for healing and healing, and at the same time it also includes the meaning of restoration. It is also the health of the body (Proverbs 4:22) and the tongue of the wise is like medicine (Proverbs 12:18). The original meaning of the word malpe is treatment, that is, literally medicine, symbolically rescue, serenity, healing, cure, remedies, correction, health, health, state of health, hygiene, peace, softness, gentleness, coolness, calm, etc. meaning is included.
3) rapha
The word rapha is used a lot in the ancient and modern Hebrew Bible, and it is recorded about 65 times, and it is used for the first time in Genesis 20:17. A closer look at this word:
* Heal, heal wounds (Genesis 22:17, Job 5:18)
* Restoring it to its original state. (2 Chronicles 7:15, Psalm 30:3)
* Repaired. (Jeremiah 19:1)
* Comfort. (Jeremiah 8:11, Ezekiel 34:4)
* Healed. (Leviticus 13:37, Isaiah 64:5)
* Let yourself be healed (2 Kings 8:29), etc.
B. Greek etymology
1) Iao Mai
‘Iao mai’ means to cure or cure a disease, and it is used almost exclusively as a medical term from the Greek etymology. However, as in our language today, this word is extended to the treatment of moral wounds and diseases. This Greek word, in its classical etymology, specifically means sin, because sin itself is classified as a kind of disease, not a separate disease that causes physical and mental illness other than what is known as a disease.
2) ‘Sozo’
Sozo is used in various meanings including medical meaning in classical Greek, and it has the meaning of protecting, protecting from harm, saving, and saving from death. The word was used in the sense of healing as well as saving a person from disease or death. In addition, since saving the body means taking steps toward the salvation of all beings in the Greek concept, the meaning of this word is connected to the concept of complete salvation, and at the same time, the theological term, soteriology, is used in this word. was derived
3) ‘Diasozo’
'Diasozo' is a compound word combining 'through' and 'to preserve'. These compound words are used when healing appears in the ministry of others after Jesus.