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Recover

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

rḗ - kuv´ẽr : "Recover" has (1) the transitive meaning of "to retake" or "regain" (anything); and (2) the intransitive sense of "to regain health" or "become well." In Judith 14:7 it means "restore to consciousness." In the former sense it is in the Old Testament the translation of נצל , nācal , "to snatch away" ( Judges 11:26; 1 Samuel 30:8 , 1 Samuel 30:22; in Hosea 2:9 , the Revised Version (British and American) "pluck away"); also of שׁוּב , shūbh (Qal and Hiphil 1 Samuel 30:19 the King James Version; 2 Samuel 8:3 , etc.), and of various other words in single instances. In 2 Kings 5:3 , 2 Kings 5:6 , 2 Kings 5:7 , 2 Kings 5:11 , "to restore to health" is אסף , 'āṣaph . In its intransitive sense "recover" is chiefly the translation of חיה , ḥāyāh , "to live," "revive" (2 Kings 1:2 , etc.; Isaiah 38:9 , Isaiah 38:21 ). "Recover" appears only twice in the King James Version of the New Testament; Mark 16:18 (for kalṓs héxousin ) and 2 Timothy 2:26 (from ananḗphō , the Revised Version margin "Greek: 'return to soberness' "); but the Revised Version (British and American) has "recover" for "do well" in John 11:12 ( sōthḗsetai ; margin "Greek: 'be saved'"). "Recovering" (of sight) (anáblepsis ) occurs in Luke 4:18 .