Wounds and binding-up imagery uses bruises, stripes, sores, tearing, bandaging, or healed wounds to picture judgment, chastening, compassion, restoration, or atoning suffering.
Wounds and binding-up imagery uses bruises, stripes, sores, tearing, bandaging, or healed wounds to picture judgment, chastening, compassion, restoration, or atoning suffering.
An injury-and-restoration motif in which wounds, bruises, stripes, sores, torn flesh, breaches, binding up, or healed injuries signify physical harm, covenant judgment, moral corruption, divine chastening, compassionate restoration, or substitutionary suffering.
These examples show how Wounds, Bruises, Stripes, and Binding-Up Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
he maketh sore, and bindeth up
God's wounding and binding language frames discipline and restoration.
bindeth up their wounds
The LORD restores the brokenhearted under wound-healing imagery.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil
Stripes and wounds are used as chastening imagery.
wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores
Judah's moral sickness is pictured as an untreated wounded body.
bindeth up the breach... healeth the stroke
National restoration is pictured as God binding and healing injuries.
with his stripes we are healed
The Servant's wounds are interpreted in relation to the healing of his people.
I will restore health unto thee... heal thee of thy wounds
Zion's restoration is expressed through healed wounds.
he hath torn, and he will heal us
Israel hopes for divine healing after covenant tearing.
bound up his wounds
The Samaritan's mercy is expressed through practical wound care.
by whose stripes ye were healed
Peter applies the Servant's stripes to salvation and righteousness.
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