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Definition and Context:
In the biblical context, "damage" refers to harm, injury, or loss that occurs to individuals, property, or relationships. The concept of damage is often associated with the consequences of sin, disobedience, and the fallen nature of the world. It can be physical, emotional, or spiritual in nature.

Old Testament References:
The Old Testament provides numerous examples of damage, both literal and metaphorical. In the Law of Moses, specific guidelines were given to address and rectify damage. For instance, Exodus 22:6 states, "If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution." This reflects the principle of accountability and restitution for damage caused.

The account of Job is a profound narrative of personal damage and loss. Job experiences immense physical and emotional damage, losing his health, wealth, and family. Despite his suffering, Job maintains his faith in God, illustrating the spiritual resilience that can accompany physical and emotional damage.

New Testament References:
In the New Testament, damage is often discussed in the context of spiritual harm and the consequences of sin. Jesus warns about the damage that sin can cause to the soul. In Matthew 5:29-30, He advises, "If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." This hyperbolic language underscores the seriousness of spiritual damage and the need for radical measures to avoid it.

The Apostle Paul addresses damage in the context of the Christian community. In 1 Corinthians 8:12, he warns against causing spiritual damage to others: "By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ." This highlights the responsibility believers have to avoid actions that could harm the faith of others.

Theological Implications:
Theologically, damage is often linked to the concept of sin and its pervasive effects on creation. The fall of humanity introduced damage into the world, affecting all aspects of life. Romans 8:20-21 speaks to this reality: "For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God."

The Bible also presents a redemptive perspective on damage. Through Christ's atoning work, believers are offered healing and restoration from the damage of sin. Isaiah 53:5 prophesies about the Messiah, "But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed." This passage emphasizes the healing and restoration available through Jesus Christ.

Practical Application:
Believers are called to be agents of healing and restoration in a world marred by damage. This involves seeking reconciliation, offering forgiveness, and working towards justice and restitution. Ephesians 4:32 encourages, "Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you." Christians are urged to address damage in their own lives and in the lives of others with compassion and grace, reflecting the restorative work of Christ.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

2. (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

3. (n.) To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

4. (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as. some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DAMAGE

dam'-aj (chabhala'): This word expresses any inflicted loss of value or permanent injury to persons or things. "Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?" (Ezra 4:22). In Proverbs 26:6 "damage" means "wrong," "injury" (Hebrew chamac). The translation of Esther 7:4 is doubtful: "Although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage" (the Revised Version, margin "For our affliction is not to be compared with the king's damage" the King James Version "could not countervail the king's damage") but Hebrew nezeq (Esther 7:4) and Aramaic naziq (Daniel 6:2) have the meaning of "molestation" or "annoyance" (see Ges.6 Buhl Dict. (15th edition) 489, 806, 908). We therefore ought to read `for that oppression would not have been worthy of the molestation of the king' (Esther 7:4) and `that the king should have no molestation' (Daniel 6:2). The Greek zemia, "loss" and zemioo, "to cause loss"; the Revised Version (British and American) therefore translates Acts 27:10 "will be with injury and much loss" (the King James Version "damage"), and 2 Corinthians 7:9 "that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing" (the King James Version "damage").

A. L. Breslich

Greek

2209. zemia -- damage
... damage. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: zemia Phonetic Spelling:
(dzay-mee'-ah) Short Definition: damage, loss Definition: damage, loss ...
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2210. zemioo -- to damage, suffer loss
... to damage, suffer loss. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: zemioo Phonetic Spelling:
(dzay-mee-o'-o) Short Definition: I inflict loss upon, punish Definition ...
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5196. hubris -- wantonness, insolence, an act of wanton violence
... act of wanton violence. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hubris Phonetic
Spelling: (hoo'-bris) Short Definition: insult, damage, loss Definition ...
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2555. kakopoios -- an evildoer
... 2555 (from 2556 , "of a malicious disposition" and 4160 , "make") -- properly, an
evil-doer, someone who makes trouble (inflicts harm), ie to injure (damage). ...
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2684. kataskopeo -- to view closely, spy out
... closely") -- properly, scope ; (figuratively) looking down on someone with a ; to
spy ("check out"); look at, especially to inflict harm (damage); to observe ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2684.htm - 7k

91. adikeo -- to do wrong, act wickedly
... Word Origin from adikos Definition to do wrong, act wickedly NASB Word Usage am
a wrongdoer (1), damage (1), do harm (1), do wrong (1), does wrong (2), doing ...
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5195. hubrizo -- to run riot, to outrage, insult
... 5195 (from 5196 , "an injury, reproach") -- properly, to seize (steal); (figuratively)
to injure, bring loss, especially to damage someone's reputation (good ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5143. nezeq -- injury, damage
... 5142, 5143. nezeq. 5144 . injury, damage. Transliteration: nezeq Phonetic
Spelling: (nay'zek) Short Definition: annoyance. ... damage. ...
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5142. nezaq -- to suffer injury
... 5141, 5142. nezaq. 5143 . to suffer injury. Transliteration: nezaq Phonetic
Spelling: (nez-ak') Short Definition: damage. ... have damage, hurtful. ...
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2257. chabal -- a hurt, injury
... 2256c, 2257. chabal. 2258 . a hurt, injury. Transliteration: chabal Phonetic
Spelling: (khab-al') Short Definition: damage. ... damage, hurt. ...
/hebrew/2257.htm - 6k

2555. chamas -- violence, wrong
... cruelty, damage, false, injustice, oppressor, unrighteous, violence against,
done,. From chamac; violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. ...
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5533. sakan -- to incur danger
... endanger, impoverish. Probably a denominative from sakkiyn; properly, to cut, ie
Damage; also to grow (causatively, make) poor -- endanger, impoverish. ...
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2000. hamam -- to make a noise, move noisily, confuse, discomfit
... noise, move noisily, confuse, discomfit NASB Word Usage brought (1), confounded
(1), confuse (1), confused (1), confusion (1), crushed (1), damage (1), destroy ...
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6485. paqad -- to attend to, visit, muster, appoint
... 1), call their to account (1), calls me to account (1), care (3), charge (1), commit
(1), committed (3), concerned (1), counted (1), damage (1), deposited (3 ...
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919. bedeq -- a fissure, rent, breach
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a fissure, rent, breach NASB Word
Usage damage (1), damages (7), seams (2). breach, caulker. ...
/hebrew/919.htm - 6k

Library

But If, Say My Opponents, no Damage is done to Human Affairs by ...
... Book I. 7 But if, say my opponents, no damage is done to human affairs
by you? But if, say my opponents, no damage is done to ...
/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/7 but if say my.htm

Sin Never to be Returned to after Repentance.
... God is satisfied if He be looked up to with the heart and the mind, even if this
be not done in outward act, and that thus they sin without damage to their ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on repentance/chapter v sin never to be.htm

2 Cor. vii. 8
... For had we not done this,' he says, we had done you damage.' And he affirms that
indeed which was well achieved to be theirs, but the damage his own, if indeed ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xv 2 cor vii.htm

The Suicide of Thought
... The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the
virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/orthodoxy/iii the suicide of thought.htm

Of Diocletian, who Ignobly Abdicated the Imperial Throne, and was ...
... [3490] At length, indeed, the providence of God took vengeance on these
unhallowed deeds; but not without severe damage to the state. ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter xxv of diocletian who ignobly.htm

Epistle x. To all the Bishops of Dalmatia.
... For we trust in Almighty God that, as far as in us lies, we may never suffer to
be done what may damage our soul; never what may damage your Church. ...
/.../gregory/the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle x to all the.htm

Of Removing Tithes.
... If the Parson dues not take away his tithes within a reasonable, time, but suffers
the same to continue upon the land to the damage of the parishioners, an ...
/.../prideaux/directions to church-wardens/8 of removing tithes.htm

A Notice of Aetius, Eunomius' Master in Heresy, and of Eunomius ...
... Verily this did great damage to our declamation-writer, or rather to his patron
and guide in life, Aetius; whose enthusiasm indeed appears to me to have aimed ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 6 a notice of.htm

The Preface.
... various judgments, Dr. Sprat [2] frankly asserts, "That our doctrine and discipline
[those of the Church of England] will be so far from receiving damage by it ...
/.../lardner/a vindication of three of our blessed saviours miracles/the preface.htm

From the Seventh to the End of the Tenth Commandment
... 377 Q. Are we obliged to repair the damage we have unjustly caused? A.
We are bound to repair the damage we have unjustly caused. ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 34 from the seventh.htm

Thesaurus

Damage (57 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to
injure; to impair. ... some colors in cloth damage in sunlight. Int. ...
/d/damage.htm - 26k

Endamage (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vt) To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ENDAMAGE. en-dam'-aj ...
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Detriment (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) That which causes damage or loss; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; --
used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc ...
/d/detriment.htm - 7k

Countervail (1 Occurrence)
... koun-ter-val' (shawah, "equalize"): To thwart or overcome by acting against with
equal force; thus, "The enemy could not countervail the king's damage" or loss ...
/c/countervail.htm - 7k

Causing (248 Occurrences)
... Exodus 21:22 If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the
loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make ...
/c/causing.htm - 38k

Hail (42 Occurrences)
... Hailstones are made up of alternate layers of ice and snow, and sometimes
reach considerable size, causing great damage by their fall. ...
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Wound (58 Occurrences)
... or the like. 5. (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like,
to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc. 6. (n.) An injury ...
/w/wound.htm - 24k

Injury (21 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Any damage or violation of, the person, character,
feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures ...
/i/injury.htm - 13k

Injure (16 Occurrences)
... (vt) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; --
used in a variety ... (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. ...
/i/injure.htm - 11k

Frequently (28 Occurrences)
... Exodus 21:29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the
owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been ...
/f/frequently.htm - 14k

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Damage (57 Occurrences)

Luke 4:35
And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.
(BBE)

Luke 10:19
See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.
(BBE)

Acts 16:28
But Paul said in a loud voice, Do yourself no damage, for we are all here.
(BBE)

Acts 18:10
For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.
(BBE)

Acts 19:37
For you have taken these men, who are not doing damage to the holy place or talking against our goddess.
(BBE)

Acts 20:29
I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
(BBE)

Acts 27:10
And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
(KJV BBE WBS YLT NAS)

Acts 27:21
And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.
(BBE YLT NAS NIV)

Acts 28:5
But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage.
(BBE)

Acts 28:6
But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 11:34
If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Galatians 1:13
For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:
(BBE)

1 Peter 3:13
Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?
(BBE)

Revelation 6:6
I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"
(WEB BBE NAS NIV)

Revelation 7:2
And I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the mark of the living God: and he said with a great voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to do damage to the earth and the sea,
(BBE)

Revelation 7:3
Do no damage to the earth, or the sea, or the trees, till we have put a mark on the servants of our God.
(BBE)

Revelation 9:4
And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.
(BBE)

Revelation 11:5
And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.
(BBE)

Genesis 26:29
That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on you.
(BBE)

Genesis 31:7
But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.
(BBE)

Genesis 31:29
It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
(BBE)

Exodus 21:22
If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
(BBE)

Exodus 21:23
But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,
(BBE)

Exodus 21:26
If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
(BBE)

Exodus 21:29
But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.
(BBE)

Exodus 21:35
And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.
(BBE)

Exodus 21:36
But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.
(BBE)

Exodus 22:5
If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.
(BBE)

Exodus 22:6
If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:55
And if, after the mark has been washed, the priest sees that the colour of it is not changed and it is not increased, it is to be burned in the fire: the disease is working in it, though the damage may be inside or outside.
(BBE)

Leviticus 22:21
And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.
(BBE)

Leviticus 24:19
And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;
(BBE)

Leviticus 24:20
Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.
(BBE)

Joshua 2:19
Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 14:10
And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 20:6
And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.
(BBE)

1 Kings 11:25
He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.
(BBE)

1 Kings 13:28
And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.
(BBE)

2 Kings 12:5
Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.
(Root in BBE NAS NIV)

2 Kings 12:7
Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.
(Root in BBE NAS NIV)

Ezra 4:13
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
(Root in KJV JPS DBY WBS NAS)

Ezra 4:15
that search may be made in the book of the annals of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the annals and know that this city is a rebellious city, which has done damage to kings and provinces, and that they have raised sedition within the same of old time, for which cause this city was destroyed.
(DBY)

Ezra 4:22
Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezra 6:12
And may the God who has made it a resting-place for his name send destruction on all kings and peoples whose hands are outstretched to make any change in this or to do damage to this house of God at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given this order, let it be done with all care.
(BBE)

Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 35:4
Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.
(BBE)

Proverbs 26:6
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Song of Songs 2:15
Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.
(BBE)

Isaiah 27:3
I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
(WEB BBE NAS)

Isaiah 28:28
Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
(BBE)

Jeremiah 13:9
The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 38:4
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
(BBE)

Daniel 6:2
and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Damage

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