Repair

Repair - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REPA'IR, v.t. [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, v.i. 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.

re-par' (machceh, "refuge"): In Joe 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 chazaq, "to strengthen," "harden," "fix" (2Ki 12:5 and often; Ne 3); rapha' "to heal" (1Ki 18:30); `amadh, "to cause to stand still" (Ezr 9:9); chayah, "to revive" (1Ch 11:8); caghar, "to close up" (1Ki 11:27).

In the Revised Version (British and American) Apocrypha for huporrapto, "to patch up" (Sirach 50:1); episkeuazo, "to get ready" (1 Macc 12:37). In 1 Macc 14:34 occurs "reparation" (modern English "repairs") for epanorthosis, "straightening up."

M. O. Evans