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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.

2. (superl.) Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.

3. (superl.) Sound; healthy.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

WHOLE; WHOLESOME

hol, hol'-sum: "Whole," originally "hale" (a word still in poetic use), had at first the meaning now expressed by its derivative "healthy." In this sense "whole" is fairly common (Job 5:18, etc.) in English Versions of the Bible, although much more common in the New Testament than in the Old Testament. From this meaning "healthy," the transition to the modern force. "complete," "perfect," "entire" (Exodus 12:6, ere) was not unnatural, and it is in this later sense alone that the adverb "wholly" (Leviticus 6:22, etc.) is used. "Wholesome," however, is derived from the earlier meaning of "whole." It occurs in Proverbs 15:4, the King James Version, the English Revised Version, "a wholesome tongue" (rapha', "heal," the Revised Version margin "the healing of the tongue," the American Standard Revised Version "a gentle tongue"), and in 1 Timothy 6:3, the King James Version "wholesome words" (hugiaino, "be healthy," the Revised Version margin "healthful," the Revised Version (British and American) "sound").

Burton Scott Easton

Greek

5199. hugies -- sound, whole, healthy
... whole, healthy. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hugies Phonetic Spelling:
(hoog-ee-ace') Short Definition: sound, whole, wholesome Definition: (a ...
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1788. entrepo -- to turn about, to reverence, to put to shame
... This term is also used of recoiling (turning away) in shame, at times of a "wholesome
shame which leads a man to consideration of his condition" (Berry). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4832. marpe -- a healing, cure, health
... tranquil (1). incurable, healing, remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding. From
rapha'; properly, curative, ie Literally (concretely) a ...
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Library

That Except that Wholesome Sorrow, which Springs up in Three Ways ...
... Prolegomena. Chapter XII. That except that wholesome sorrow, which springs up in
three ways, all sorrow and dejection should be resisted as hurtful. ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xii that except that.htm

Nicholas Tells the Master Wholesome Truths
... CHAPTER III NICHOLAS TELLS THE MASTER WHOLESOME TRUTHS. THE Master made
no reply for a while, but he was a meek and gentle man, and ...
/.../bevan/three friends of god/chapter iii nicholas tells the.htm

The Glory of the Trinity
... For what is more wholesome for you and me, and any man, than to be humiliated"humbled"
and brought to our own level"that all may see who, what, and where ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xvi the glory of.htm

The Sophistical Arts Useless.
... With reason, therefore, the noble apostle, depreciating these superfluous arts occupied
about words, says, "If any man do not give heed to wholesome words, but ...
/.../the stromata or miscellanies/chapter viii the sophistical arts useless.htm

Curiosity.
... requires to he kept in constant activity, and since thoughts alone can do this they
should be such as to amply furnish it with solid and wholesome food, for ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter xvii curiosity.htm

On the Negative Spirit
... But let us never forget that this visionary religion is, in one sense, necessarily
more wholesome than our modern and reasonable morality. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/ii on the negative spirit.htm

The Three Tribunals
... Now, the direct tendency of Christian faith and principle is to dwindle into wholesome
insignificance the multitudinous voice of men's judgments. ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the three tribunals.htm

Although, Even if There Went Before no Testimonies Concerning ...
... name of Christ: which very error would not be suffered to spring up throughout the
earth, were it not that the very gainsaying exercised an wholesome discipline ...
/.../augustine/concerning faith of things not seen /10 although even if there.htm

The Religious Uses of Memory
... I would fain say a word or two now which may fit in with thoughts that are wholesome
for us always, but, I suppose, come with most force to most of us at such ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/the religious uses of memory.htm

'Is it I?'
... I take the first form of the question as an example of that wholesome self-distrust
which a glimpse into the slumbering possibilities of evil in our hearts ...
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Thesaurus

Wholesome (10 Occurrences)
... Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity;
conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome...
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Whole (2785 Occurrences)
... complete in itself. 5. (n.) A regular combination of parts; a system. Int.
Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WHOLE; WHOLESOME. hol, hol'-sum ...
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Grant (87 Occurrences)
... Matthew 12:33 "Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or
the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit ...
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Poisonous (8 Occurrences)
... Matthew 12:33 "Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or
the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit ...
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Instruction (117 Occurrences)
... If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome
instructions--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that ...
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Wholeheartedly (15 Occurrences)

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Nimrim (2 Occurrences)
... Vaticanus Nebrein; Codex Alexandrinus Ebrim (Jeremiah 48:34); to hudor tes Nimreim
(Isaiah 15:6)): The meaning appears to be "pure" or "wholesome water." The ...
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Opposed (23 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 1:10 fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false witnesses;
and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome teaching (WEY DBY). ...
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Godly (50 Occurrences)
... If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome
instructions--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that ...
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Wanting (27 Occurrences)
... 2 Timothy 4:3 For a time is coming when they will not tolerate wholesome instruction,
but, wanting to have their ears tickled, they will find a multitude of ...
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Bible Concordance

Wholesome (10 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:33 "Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.
(WEY)

1 Timothy 1:10 fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false witnesses; and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome teaching
(WEY)

1 Timothy 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
(KJV WEY WBS)

2 Timothy 4:3 For a time is coming when they will not tolerate wholesome instruction, but, wanting to have their ears tickled, they will find a multitude of teachers to satisfy their own fancies;
(WEY)

Titus 2:1 But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching.
(WEY)

2 Peter 3:1 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
(See NIV)

2 Kings 2:21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "Thus says Yahweh,'I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.'"
(See RSV)

2 Kings 2:22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
(See RSV NIV)

Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
(KJV WBS)

Proverbs 15:31 The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Wholeness

Wholesome

Related Terms

Whole (2785 Occurrences)

Grant (87 Occurrences)

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