iaomai describes healing from bodily illness or affliction and, in turning-and-sins clauses, restoration.

The verb most often describes a person’s recovery from illness, bodily affliction, weakness, or injury; it also occurs in clauses where healing follows turning from a hardened heart or is stated in relation to sins.

1. Recovery from bodily illness or affliction · dominant

   The forms describe people receiving or performing recovery in concrete conditions: in Acts 28:8 the aorist middle form follows Publius’s father lying sick with fever and dysentery, and the APB renders the result “he healed him.” In Mark 5:29 the perfect passive follows the drying up of a flow of blood, while Matthew 8:13 and Luke 22:51 place passive or middle forms in accounts of a child’s recovery and an ear being touched.

   Acts 28:8Mark 5:29Matthew 8:13Luke 22:51Luke 6:18Hebrews 12:13
2. Restoration in turning and sins clauses · occasional

   In Matthew 13:15, John 12:40, and Acts 28:27, the future middle form occurs after clauses about seeing, hearing, understanding with the heart, and turning; the APB renders the concluding action “I heal them” or “be healed.” In 1 Peter 2:24, the aorist passive plural occurs in a statement about sins, living to righteousness, and being healed by a wound.

   Matthew 13:15John 12:40Acts 28:271 Peter 2:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly uses “healed” and “healing” for the clauses containing this verb, including illness, affliction, and the turning clauses. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those renderings confirm the clause-level presentation rather than supplying a separate definition.