Repair
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To return.
(2): ( v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
(3): ( n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
(4): ( n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
(5): ( n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
(6): ( v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
(7): ( v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
(8): ( n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
King James Dictionary [2]
Repa'Ir, L reparo re and paro, to prepare. See Pare.
1. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation or partial destruction as, to repair a house, a wall or a ship to repair roads and bridges. Temperance and diet may repair a broken or enfeebled constitution. Food repairs the daily waste of the body. 2. To rebuild a part decayed or destroyed to fill up as, to repair a breach. 3. To make amends, as for an injury, by an equivalent to indemnify for as, to repair a loss or damage.
REPA'IR, n. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury or partial destruction supply of loss reparation as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or a city.
REPA'IR, To go to to betake one's self to resort as, to repair to a sanctuary for safety.
Go, mount the winds and to the shades repair.
REPA'IR, n. The act of betaking one's self to any place a resorting abode.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
rḗ - pâr ´ ( מחסה , maḥṣeh , "refuge"): In Joel 3:16 , for the King James Version The Lord will be the hope of his people" the King James Version margin renders "place of repair," or, "harbour" = haven of repair. the Revised Version (British and American) gives "refuge." Other words are חזק , ḥāzaḳ , "to strengthen," "harden," "fix" ( 2 Kings 12:5 and often; Neh 3); רפא , rāphā' "to heal" ( 1 Kings 18:30 ); עמד , ‛āmadh , "to cause to stand still" ( Ezra 9:9 ); חיה , ḥāyāh , "to revive" ( 1 Chronicles 11:8 ); סגר , ṣāghar , "to close up" ( 1 Kings 11:27 ).
In the Revised Version (British and American) Apocrypha for ὑπορράπτω , huporráptō , "to patch up" ( Sirach 50:1 ); ἐπισκευάζω , episkeuázō , "to get ready" ( 1 Maccabees 12:37 ). In 1 Maccabees 14:34 occurs "reparation" (modern English "repairs") for ἐπανόρθωσις , epanórthōsis , "straightening up."
