Makes healthy or whole again; cures an injury or illness, or repairs a wound or emotional hurt.
From Old English 'hǽlan' (to make whole, to cure), related to 'whole' and 'holy.' The concept of healing is linguistically connected to wholeness and completeness.
The word 'heal' is connected to 'whole,' 'holy,' and 'health'—all from the same root meaning completeness—which reveals how ancient people saw sickness as a state of incompleteness and healing as restoration to wholeness or spiritual integrity.
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