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Genesis 50:2

וַ יְצַו יֹוסֵף אֶת עֲבָדָיו אֶת הָ רֹפְאִים לַ חֲנֹט אֶת אָבִיו וַ יַּחַנְטוּ הָ רֹפְאִים אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל
And He-Adds is commanding אֶת-his slaves, אֶת-the Ones-who-mend,1380 to spice אֶת-his father, and the Ones-who-mend are spicing אֶת-El-Strives.
1380

Strong’s #7495, rapha, to sew together, mend. Traditionally interpreted as “to heal”. See Gesenius who notes that this word “imitates the sound of a person sewing rapidly.”