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Recover:

re-kuv'-er: "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 natsal, "to snatch away" (Jud 11:26; 1Sa 30:8,22; in Ho 2:9, the Revised Version (British and American) "pluck away"); also of shubh (Qal and Hiphil 1Sa 30:19 the King James Version; 2Sa 8:3, etc.), and of various other words in single instances. In 2Ki 5:3,6,7,11, "to restore to health" is ‘acaph. In its intransitive sense "recover" is chiefly the translation of chayah, "to live," "revive" (2Ki 1:2, etc.; Isa 38:9,21). "Recover" appears only twice in the King James Version of the New Testament; Mr 16:18 (for kalos hexousin) and 2Ti 2:26 (from ananepho, the Revised Version margin "Greek: ‘return to soberness' "); but the Revised Version (British and American) has "recover" for "do well" in Joh 11:12 (sothesetai; margin "Greek: ‘be saved'")." Recovering" (of sight) (anablepsis) occurs in Lu 4:18.

Written by W. L. Walker

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Recover:

"to save," is sometimes used of "healing" or "restoration to health," the latter in Jhn 11:12, RV, "he will recover," marg., "be saved" (AV, "he shall do well").
See HEAL, PRESERVE, SAVE, WHOLE.

Recover:

"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 2Ti 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.

Notes:

(1) For "recovering of sight," Luk 4:18, see SIGHT.

(2) In Mar 16:18, the phrase echo kalos, lit., "to have well," i.e., "to be well," is rendered "they shall recover."