Iama means “healing” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2386 — chazir (“boar”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2386 ἴαμα (iama) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. iama (ee'-am-ah) n. 1. a cure (the effect) [from G2390] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include healing. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
iama (ee'-am-ah) n. 1. a cure (the effect) [from G2390] KJV: healing Root(s): G2390
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2386. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
healing
Usage: ἴαμα, -τος, τό (ἰάομαι), [in LXX for מַרְפֵּא (2Ch.36:16, Ecc.10:4, Jer.33:6, etc. ;] __1. most frequently in cl., a means of healing, remedy (Thuc., al.; Wis.11:4 10:9). __2. = ἴασις (which see), a healing (Plat.; Jer, l.with): pl., 1Co.12:9 12:28 12:30.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render iama, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2386 (ἴαμα) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
7 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, Leave not thy place; For soothing will put an end to great offenses.
The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, And water was given them out of the flinty rock, And their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, Neither was there found any remedy for their life: For they were worthy to be punished by such.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2386.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, Leave not thy place; For soothing will put an end to great offenses.
The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily spring forth: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of God shall compass thee.
Go up to Gilead, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.
For I will bring about thy healing, I will heal thee of thy grievous wound, saith the Lord; for thou art called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, And water was given them out of the flinty rock, And their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, Neither was there found any remedy for their life: For they were worthy to be punished by such.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2386, grouped by book.
Iama (Strong's G2386) is a Greek word most simply glossed "healing". iama (ee'-am-ah) n. 1. a cure (the effect) [from G2390]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G2386 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2386 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as healing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2386, with linked reader references where each row is available.