the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Maimed
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
or MAIMED.—This term signifies disabled by wounding or mutilation; deprived of the use of a necessary constitutive part of the body; mutilated; rendered unable to defend oneself or to discharge necessary functions. In Matthew 15:30 and Mark 9:43 κυλλός is the word employed and is translation ‘maimed’ in both Authorized Version and Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 . It is kindred with κοῖλος, ‘hollow,’ and signifies originally ‘crooked,’ ‘bent,’ and so crippled and halt. κυλλὴ χείρ is the hand with its fingers bent so as to make a hollow palm. ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ (sc. χειρί) = ‘put it into the hollow of the hand.’ In Luke 14:13; Luke 14:21 the word used is ἀνάπηρος, i.e. πηρός = ‘deprived of some member of the body’ (Lat. mancus), preceded by ἀνά intensive. The composite word indicates an extreme form of bodily mutilation, and Jesus is never said to have restored one so suffering. The word is not employed in connexion with our Lord’s miracles, but only in His invitation to the blessings of the Kingdom, to which all outcast sufferers were with Divine compassion called.
T. H. Wright.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Maimed'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/m/maimed.html. 1906-1918.
