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, or
(
, 2775), from
, a diminutive of
, usually meant “to sum up, to bring under heads”; in Mark 12:4 it is used for
“wounding on the head,” the only place where it has this meaning.¶
HEADLONG (to cast, to fall)
1.
(
$
&
, 2630) signifies “to throw over a precipice” (
,
“down,”
, “a steep bank,” etc.), said of the purpose of the people of Nazareth to
destroy Christ, Luke 4:29.¶
2.
(
$
)
, 4248), an adjective denoting “headlong, prone,” is used with the
verb
, “to become,” in Acts 1:18, of the death of Judas, “falling headlong”;
various suggestions have been made as to the actual details; some ascribe to the word the
meaning “swelling up.”¶
HEADSTRONG (
RV
), HEADY (
KJV
)
(
$ )
, 4312) lit. means “falling forwards” (from
, “forwards,” and
, “to fall”); it is used metaphorically to signify “precipitate, rash, reckless,” and is
said (a) of persons, 2 Tim. 3:4; “headstrong” is the appropriate rendering; (b) of things,
Acts 19:36,
RV
, “(nothing) rash” (
KJV
, “rashly”).¶
HEAL, HEALING
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
$ "
, 2323) primarily signifies “to serve as a
, an
attendant”; then, “to care for the sick, to treat, cure, heal” (Eng., “therapeutics”). It is
chiefly used in Matthew and Luke, once in John (5:10), and, after the Acts, only Rev.
13:3 and 12. See
CURE
.
2.
(
$ $!
, 4390), “to heal,” is used (a) of physical treatment 22 times; in
Matt. 5:28,
KJV
, “made whole,”
RV
, “healed”; so in Acts 9:34; (b) figuratively, of spiritual
“healing,” Matt. 13:15; John 12:40; Acts 28:27; Heb. 12:13; 1 Pet. 2:24; possibly, Jas.
5:16 includes both (a) and (b); some mss. have the word, with sense (b), in Luke 4:18.
Apart from this last, Luke, the physician, uses the word fifteen times. See
WHOLE
.
3.
(
0
, 4982), “to save,” is translated by the verb “to heal” in the
KJV
of Mark
5:23 and Luke 8:36 (
RV
, “to make whole”; so
KJV
frequently); the idea is that of saving
from disease and its effects. See
SAVE
.
4.
(
0
, 1295), “to save thoroughly” ( , “through,” and No. 3), is
translated “heal” in Luke 7:3,
KJV
(
RV
, “save”). See
ESCAPE
.
B. Nouns.
1.
(
$ &
, 2322), akin to A, No. 1, primarily denotes “care, attention,”
Luke 12:42 (see
HOUSEHOLD
); then, “medical service, healing” (Eng., “therapy”), Luke
9:11; Rev. 22:2, of the effects of the leaves of the tree of life, perhaps here with the
meaning “health.”¶
2.
(
5
, 2386), akin to A, No. 2, formerly signified “a means of healing”; in
the NT, “a healing” (the result of the act), used in the plural, in 1 Cor. 12:9, 28, 30,
RV
,
“healings”; of divinely imparted gifts in the churches in apostolic times.¶