Recover
Recover
re-kuver: 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 , nacal, to snatch away (Jdg 11:26; 1Sa 30:8, 1Sa 30:22; in Hos 2:9, the Revised Version (British and American) pluck away); also of , shubh (Qal and Hiphil 1Sa 30:19 the King James Version; 2Sa 8:3, etc.), and of various other words in single instances. In 2Ki 5:3, 2Ki 5:6, 2Ki 5:7, 2Ki 5:11, to restore to health is , ‘asaph. In its intransitive sense recover is chiefly the translation of , hayah, to live, revive (2Ki 1:2, etc.; Isa 38:9, Isa 38:21). Recover appears only twice in the King James Version of the New Testament; Mar 16:18 (for kalos hexousin) and 2Ti 2:26 (from ananepho, the Revised Version margin Greek: ‘return to soberness’ ); but the Revised Version (British and American) has recover for do well in Joh 11:12 (sothesetai; margin Greek: ‘be saved’). Recovering (of sight) (anablepsis) occurs in Luk 4:18.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Recover
“to save,” is sometimes used of “healing” or “restoration to health,” the latter in Joh 11:12, RV, “he will recover,” marg., “be saved” (AV, “he shall do well”). See HEAL, PRESERVE, SAVE, WHOLE.
“to return to soberness,” as from a state of delirium or drunkenness (ana, “back,” or “again,” nepho, “to be sober, to be wary”), is used in 2Ti 2:26, “may recover themselves” (RV marg., “return to soberness,” AV marg., “awake”), said of those who, opposing the truth through accepting perversions of it, fall into the snare of the Devil, becoming intoxicated with error; for these “recovery” is possible only by “repentance unto the knowledge of the truth.” For a translation of the verse see CAPTIVE, B, No. 3.
Notes: (1) For “recovering of sight,” Luk 4:18, see SIGHT. (2) In Mar 16:18, the phrase echo kalos, lit., “to have well,” i.e., “to be well,” is rendered “they shall recover.”