International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Mollify

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Mollify


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mol´i-fı̄ (from רכך, rākhakh, “to be soft”): “To make soft,” used in modern English only figuratively, as “His anger was mollified.” English Versions of the Bible, however, uses the word literally in its two occurrences: , “wounds, and bruises ... neither bound up, neither mollified with oil”; The Wisdom of Solomon 16:12, “mollifying plaister.” Neither occurrence of the word is changed by the Revised Version (British and American).