Matthew 8:14-15 Healing Peter's Mother-in-law (from literal Greek)
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"Jesus (1), coming into Peter's house, saw that Peter's mother-in-law was lying down sick (2) with fever (3). He took hold (4) of her hand and the fever left her, and she rose up and served Him."
(1) In Greek: Iēsoús (EE-ay-sooce') - In English: Jesus or Joshua (from Jehoshua). In Hebrew: Yehoshua (yeh-ho-shoo'-ah from Yhowshuwa'), which means "the LORD is salvation".
(2) Balló (BAL'-lo) - Cast or thrown down, weak, lying (down), to lie sick, to be prostrated by sickness, or to be stricken by illness,
(3) Puressó (poo-RES'-so) - Literally to be on fire with fever, to be extremely sick with fever.
(4) Haptó (HAP'-to) - To fasten to, to lay hold of, to grab,
Notes and thoughts:
The name Jesus is the equivalent in the English language to the name Joshua. They are the same in Hebrew from which they derive. Joshua is Yehoshua in Hebrew, pronounced YayHO'shua. This comes from the Hebrew Yhowshuwa. Yhowshuwa is the combination of two more Hebrew words: YHVH (yeh-HO-vaw') which is known as the Tetragrammaton and considered the proper name of the God of Israel which is where we get the names Yahweh and Jehovah from; and the word yasha (yaw-SHAH') which means to deliver: "God delivers".
So the name Jesus, is the same in the original language as Joshua, the successor of Moses, whose name means "the God of Israel who delivers his people" "The LORD is our salvation". It is important to know that Jesus came in the roll of deliverer. Not only from our sin and eternal separation from God, but to deliver us from sickness, as in this story of Peter's mother-in-law.
Once again, we see in the Greek, that Jesus didn't just lightly touch people who were sick, haptó means to take hold of or grab onto. Jesus took Peter's mother-in-law's hand into His own and the fever had to leave. We must grab hold of our healing and the sickness must leave.