Iaomai is used 32 times. This word is used for instantaneous, miraculous healing. But sometimes it is used in the figurative sense so as to heal someones ability to hear and listen, see or understand. It also means to heal the brokenhearted (maybe).
Strong’s: 2390 iáomai (ee-ah’-om-ahee) (a primitive verb, NAS dictionary) – healing, particularly as supernatural and bringing attention to the Lord Himself as the Great Physician (cf. Is 53:4,5:: by his stripes we are healed (rapa)).
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— Yeshua heals (Matthew and Mark)
We first look at an instance where healing occurs without and physical touch.
Mat 8:8:: The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
Because of the centurion’s great faith…
Mat 8:13:: Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.
There are three places in the new testament Isaiah 6 is used to speak of miraculous healing.
Mat 13:15 (also see John 12:40)
For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.’[Is. 6:9-10]
In Acts 28:27 Apostle Paul again quoted from Isaiah 6 to the Jews in Rome. This time there was no mention of any healing (ioamai) amongst
the Jews in Rome. More to say about Paul’s methods next week.
Next is one instance brought about by a womon’s great feath and Yeshua affirming her faith.
Mat 15:28:: Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Then there is physical touch, activated by a woman’s faith.
Mark 5:29:: Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.
— Yeshua heals (Luke)
Luke seems to use the words therapeou and iomatai almost synonymously. We will look at those verses next week.
That day a paralytic was healed:
Luk 5:17:: Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. (Matt. 9:2–8; Mark 2:1–12 )
Centurion’s servant again;
Luk 7:7:: “Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.
The woman with the issue of blood again:
Luk 8:47:: Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.
Bethsaida countryside where 5000 fed:
Luk 9:11:: But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.
Man’s son with epilepsy:
Luk 9:42:: as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father.
Man healed of dropsy:
Luk 14:3-4:: Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go.
Luk 17:15:: one of them (a leper), when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God,
While being kissed by Judas and arrested:
Luk 22:51:: Jesus answered and said, “Permit even this.” And He touched his ear and healed him.
(Matt. 26:47–56; Mark 14:43–52; John 18:1–11 )
There are cases where Luke mentions healing and mixes the use of ioamata and therepeuo we will look at next week.
— Yeshua heals (John)
There is an instance where Yeshua heals by just says the word ‘your son lives’.
John 4:47:: When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
At that very hour we read the fever left the son. Then there is the healing of the man at the pool of Bethsada. This also happened on the sabbath for the Jews, seeing him carry his mat stopped him and asked who told him to carry his mat that day.
John 5:13:: the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
So instead of praising God for his healing after 38 years, they picked on the day it happened.
What is interesting is John 9 which speaks about the healing of a man born blind. The story takes place on the sabbath. Yeshua is accused of not keeping the sabbath because he spat on the ground and made spittle and put it on the eyes of the one blind. I think the overall message here is spiritual blindness which is what the Pharasees had, including the one called Saul.