Maimed
Maimed
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 Mat 15:30 and Mar 9:43 is the word employed and is translation maimed in both Authorized Version and Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 . It is kindred with , hollow, and signifies originally crooked, bent, and so crippled and halt. is the hand with its fingers bent so as to make a hollow palm. (sc. ) = put it into the hollow of the hand. In Luk 14:13; Luk 14:21 the word used is , i.e. = deprived of some member of the body (Lat. mancus), preceded by 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 Lords 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.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Maimed
mam’d (, haruc; , kullos, , anaperos): The condition of being mutilated or rendered imperfect as the result of accident, in contrast to congenital malformation. An animal thus affected was declared to be unfit to be offered in sacrifice as a peace offering (Lev 22:22); although under certain conditions a congenitally deformed animal might be accepted as a free-will offering, apparently the offering of a maimed animal was always prohibited (Lev 22:23, Lev 22:24). The use of such animals in sacrifice was one of the charges brought against the Jews of his time by Malachi (Mal 1:8-14). The word is also used to denote those who were so mutilated. Among those made whole by our Lord in Galilee were the maimed as well as the halt (Mat 15:30).
Figuratively the casting off of any evil habit or distracting condition which interferes with the spiritual life is called maiming (Mat 18:8; Mar 9:43); with this may be taken the lesson in Mat 19:12. In these passages maimed (kullos) is used of injuries of the upper limb, and cholos of those affecting the feet, rendering one halt. Hippocrates, however, uses kullos for a deformation of the legs in which the knees are bent so far outward as to render the patient lame; while he applies the term cholos as a generic name for any distortion, and in one place uses it to describe a mutilation of the head (Prorrhetica, 83). The maimed and the halt are among the outcasts who are to be brought into the gospel feast according to the parable (Luk 14:13-21).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Maimed
“crippled, maimed” (from ana, “up,” and peros, “disabled in a limb”), is found in Luk 14:13, Luk 14:21.
denotes “crooked, crippled” (akin to kulio, “to roll”); in Mat 15:30-31, translated “maimed;” so in Mat 18:8, AV (RV, “halt”); Mar 9:43 (AV and RV). See HALT.