Recover
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to save," is sometimes used of "healing" or "restoration to health," the latter in John 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 2—Timothy 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.
Luke 4:18Sight. Mark 16:18
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, - as a state of mind or body.
(2): ( v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; - often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
(3): ( v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
(4): ( v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
(5): ( v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
(6): ( n.) Recovery.
(7): ( v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
(8): ( v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
(9): ( v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
(10): ( v. t.) To cover again.
(11): ( v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
(12): ( v. t.) To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
King James Dictionary [3]
Recover, L recupero re and capio, to take.
1. To regain to get or obtain that which was lost as, to recover stolen goods to recover a town or territory which an enemy had taken to recover sight or senses to recover health or strength after sickness.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. 1 Samuel 30 .
2. To restore from sickness as, to recover one from leprosy. 2 Kings 5 . 3. To revive from apparent death as, to recover a drowned man. 4. To regain by reparation to repair the loss of, or to repair an injury done by neglect as, to recover lost time.
Good men have lapses and failings to lament and recover.
5. To regain a former state by liberation from capture or possession.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. 2 Timothy 2 .
6. To gain as a compensation to obtain in return for injury or debt as, to recover damages in trespass to recover debt and cost in a suit at law. 7. To reach to come to.
The forest is not three leagues off if we recover that, we're sure enough.
8. To obtain title to by judgment in a court of law as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery.
1. To regain health after sickness to grow well followed by of or from.
Go, inquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease. 2 Kings 1 .
2. To regain a former state or condition after misfortune as, to recover from a state of poverty or depression. 3. To obtain a judgment in law to succeed in a lawsuit. The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
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 .
