Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of diseases


Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?
Verse ConceptsdiseasesBalmsHealingHerbs And SpicesMedicineOintmentNo HealingHealth And HealingHope And Healingwholeness

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Verse ConceptsThe DeaddoctorsArts And Crafts, Types ofPreparation For BurialDrugs

Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas. Verse ConceptsGood FriendsdoctorsHealingPhysician

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians. Verse ConceptsdiseasesdisabilitiesHealingHelpfulnessSeeking GodDiseaseSicknessIllnessNot Seeking God

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. Verse ConceptsdoctorsHealingSin, Deliverance From GodPhysicianGod As DoctorHealth AchievedMan's NeedsIllnessHelping Those In Need

And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’” Verse ConceptsdoctorsPhysicianInfidelity To GodGod As DoctorJesus HealingOld Sayings

And Jesus answered and said to them, It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. Verse ConceptsCuresdoctorsTax CollectorsGod As DoctorHealth Achieved

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?
Verse ConceptsdiseasesBalmsHealingHerbs And SpicesMedicineOintmentNo HealingHealth And HealingHope And Healingwholeness

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.
Verse ConceptsdoctorsBalmsMedicineOintmentVirginNo Healingvirginity


‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.
Verse ConceptsNo HealingSuing GodRecoveryHealth And HealingHope And Healing

By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.” Verse ConceptsFruitNew ThingsdiseasesHealingMedicineAbundance, MaterialUnfading LifeIncreasing FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsFoliageMetaphorical TreesFood DefinedGod HealsPlans For A New TempleHealing Of NationsHerbsHealth And HealingDrugs

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.
Verse ConceptsBruisesAnointing, Medical PurposedoctorsBoils Or UlcersHeadsHealingMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfDisfigurement Of SinWoundsscars

and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. Verse ConceptsGesturesInnsAnointing, Medical PurposeAnointing With OilHealingHelpfulnessMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfAlcohol ConsumptionStaying Temporarily


Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Verse ConceptsBodydoctorsBoils Or UlcersMedicineFigsRecoveryAbscess


From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.
Verse ConceptsBruisesAnointing, Medical PurposedoctorsBoils Or UlcersHeadsHealingMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfDisfigurement Of SinWoundsscars

and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. Verse ConceptsGesturesInnsAnointing, Medical PurposeAnointing With OilHealingHelpfulnessMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfAlcohol ConsumptionStaying Temporarily



“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword. Verse ConceptsdoctorsHealingBones BrokenNo HealingHealing A Broken Heart

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Verse ConceptsBodydoctorsBoils Or UlcersMedicineFigsRecoveryAbscess

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