the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

רפא

There are issues in ascertaining a consistent meaning for 'repa'.

It seems likely that 'repa' is more accurately related to “healing”, due to it being the root of irepa (“heal”) and repaot (“medicine”)

'repa' is the root word of repaim and therefore plays an important role in clarifying the difference between repaim and a hypothetical repehim

In only one outlying case, 'repa' (LexID 7496) appears to mean “deformed”. 1 Chronicles 20:6-8 tells of a man with six fingers and six toes who was born deformed. In this case although the word is spelled 'repa', it seems likely that the intended word was actually repeh

LexID 7496