Naaman

A servant of Elisha, Gehazi, seeing his master refuse gifts from Naaman, ran after him and falsely asked for clothing and silver for visitors.

Now the Arameans went out in bands and captured from the land of Israel a young girl, who ministered to Naaman's wife.According to the narrative, he is called a mezora, a person affected by the skin disease tzaraath (Hebrew: צָרַעַת, romanized: ṣāraʿaṯ).

Naaman had expected the prophet himself to come out to him and to perform some kind of impressive ritual magic; he angrily refuses and prepares to go home unhealed.

Only after Naaman's slaves suggest to their master that he has nothing to lose by at least giving it a try since the task is a simple and easy one, he takes his bath in the Jordan River as a mikveh and finds himself healed.

[2] According to Rabbinic teaching, Naaman was the archer who drew his bow at a venture and mortally wounded Ahab, King of Northern Israel.

[8][9] As the object of the narrative of Naaman's sickness and restoration to health is, apparently, to form a link in the long series of miracles performed by Elisha, the redactor of II Kings did not concern himself to indicate the time when this event occurred.

The passage "for through him GOD had granted victory to Aram" (II Kings 5:1) upon which the identification of Naaman with Ahab's slayer is based by the Chazal is referred by G. Rawlinson, however, to the triumph over Shalmaneser III in the Battle of Qarqar by an alliance of Aramean and Arab states led by Hadadezer.

The Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament, uses the word baptizein for the dipping that heals the heathen Naaman from the skin disease called tzaraath.