Restore
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to give back," is translated "I restore" in Luke 19:8 . See Deliver , A, No. 3.
or the alternative form apokathistano is used (a) of "restoration" to a former condition of health, Matthew 12:13; Mark 3:5; 8:25; Luke 6:10; (b) of the Divine "restoration" of Israel and conditions affected by it, including the renewal of the covenant broken by them, Matthew 17:11; Mark 9:12; Acts 1:6; (c) of "giving" or "bringing" a person back, Hebrews 13:19 . In the papyri it is used of financial restitution, of making good the breaking of a stone by a workman by his substituting another, of the reclamation of land, etc. (Moulton and Milligan).
"to mend, to furnish completely," is translated "restore" in Galatians 6:1 , metaphorically, of the "restoration," by those who are spiritual, of one overtaken in a trespass, such a one being as a dislocated member of the spiritual body. The tense is the continuous present, suggesting the necessity for patience and perseverance in the process. See Fit , Mend , Perfect.
King James Dictionary [2]
Resto'Re, L restauro. This is a compound of re and the root of store, story, history. The primary sense is to set, to lay or to throw, as in Gr. solid.
1. To return to a person, as a specific thing which he has lost, or which has been taken from him and unjustly detained. We restore lost or stolen goods to the owner.
Now therefore restore to the man his wife. Genesis 20 .
2. To replace to return as a person or thing to a former place.
Pharaoh shall restore thee to thy place. Genesis 40 .
3. To bring back.
The father banish'd virtue shall restore.
4. To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man restore it, and regain the blissful seat.
- Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions.
5. To heal to cure to recover from disease.
His hand was restored whole like as the other. Matthew 12 .
6. To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value.
He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. Exodus 22 .
7. To give for satisfaction for pretended wrongs something not taken. Psalms 69 . 8. To repair to rebuild as, to restore and to build Jerusalem. Daniel 9 . 9. To revive to resuscitate to bring back to life.
Whose son he had restored to life. 2 Kings 8 .
10. To return or bring back after absence. Hebrews 13 . 11. To bring to a sense of sin and amendment of life.
Galatians 6 .
12. To renew or re-establish after interruption as, peace is restored. Friendship between the parties is restored. 13. To recover or renew, as passages of an author obscured or corrupted as, to restore the true reading.
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [3]
The Scriptural sense of restoration is to give back to its rightful owner whatsoever had been taken away. And nothing can more fully come up to this standard, than when Christ made restoration to God for his people of all that they had taken away, or injured God in. Our nature by sin and transgression, had robbed God of his glory and man of his happiness. The glory of God was robbed in the injury, and dishonour done to his at tributes, to his law, and to his justice. When therefore Jesus restored that he took not away, as he saith himself, by the spirit of prophecy, ( Psalms 69:4) —he restored glory to the attributes of God, he restored more than an equivalent to the law of God by his personal obedience, and to the justice of God by his personal sufferings and death. And in as much as the obedience and death of the Lord Jesus, from the dignity of his person, and the infinite worth and merit of his obedience and sacrifice, became infinitely more valuable than the everlasting obedience and death of all the creation of God would have been had both been so offered, God was more glorified by those personal acts of the Lord Jesus Christ, than he had ever been dishonored by man's disobedience and rebellion.
And as the Lord Jesus thus restored to God his glory and honor, so he restored to man thereby his happiness. Man had been robbed of God's favour, God's images God's blessing. All these were fully, completely, and most satisfactorily re stored, by the person and redemption-work of the Lord Jesus. God's favour is procured, God's image is restored, and God's everlasting blessing is obtained, by the blood of the cross. And what endears the whole is, that it is so obtained as that it can be lost no more. Such is the Scriptural sense of restoration by the Lord Jesus!
Webster's Dictionary [4]
(1): ( v. t.) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.
(2): ( v. t.) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
(3): ( n.) Restoration.
(4): ( v. t.) To make good; to make amends for.
(5): ( v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
(6): ( v. t.) To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
(7): ( v. t.) To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.
(8): ( v. t.) To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
