Mend

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: καταρτίζω (Strong'S #2675 — Verb — katartizo — kat-ar-tid'-zo )

from kata, "down," intensive and artios, "fit," has three meanings, (a) "to mend, repair,"  Matthew 4:21;  Mark 1:19 , of nets; (b) "to complete, furnish completely, equip, prepare,"  Luke 6:40;  Romans 9:22;  Hebrews 11:3 and in the Middle Voice,   Matthew 21:16;  Hebrews 10:5; (c) "ethically, to prepare, perfect,"  Galatians 6:1;  1 Thessalonians 3:10;  1 Peter 5:10;  Hebrews 13:21; and in the Passive Voice,  1 Corinthians 1:10;  2 Corinthians 13:11 . See Fit , Frame , Join , Perfect , Prepare , Restore.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

(2): ( v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

(3): ( v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.

(4): ( v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

King James Dictionary

Mend, L. emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.

1. To repair, as a breach to supply a part broken or defective as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam, a fence, &c. 2. To correct to set right to alter for the better as, to mend the life or manners. 3. To repair to restore to a sound state as, to mend a feeble or broken constitution. 4. To help to advance to make better.

This plausible apology does not mend the matter.

Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.

5. To improve to hasten.

He saw the monster mend his pace.