Meaning
Hurt hurt: The term (noun and verb) represents a large number of Hebrew words, of which the chief are ra` (verb ra`a`), "evil" (Gen 26:29, 1Sa 24:9, Psa 35:4, etc.), and shebher or shebher (from shabhar), "a fracture" or "breaking" (Jer 6:14, Jer 8:11, Jer 8:21, Jer 10:19; compare Exo 22:10, Exo 22:14). In Greek a principal verb is adikeo, "to do injustice" (Luk 10:19, Rev 2:11, Rev 6:6, etc.); once the word "hurt" is used in the King James Version (Ac 27:10, story of Paul's shipwreck) for hubris, "injury" (thus the Revised Version (British and American)). In the Revised Version (British and American) "hurt" sometimes takes the place of other words in the King James Version, as "sick" (Pr 23:35), "breach" (Isa 30:26), "bruise" (Jer 30:12, Nah 3:19); sometimes, on the other hand, the word in the King James Version is exchanged in the Revised Version (British and American) for "evil" (Jos 24:20), "harm" (Ac 18:10), or, as above, "injury" (Ac 27:10). These references sufficiently show the meaning of the word-harm, bruise, breaking, etc. In Jeremiah (ut supra) the word is used figuratively for moral disease or corruption.
James Orr
