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lated “whole” in verse 28 is from the Greek
word sozo. It means, according to Strong’s
Concordance: “heal, preserve, save, do well,
be (make) whole.” It is plain to see that the
Greek word sozo has the same meaning as the
Hebrew word shalem. The New Testament was
written in Greek, the trade language of the
times, to reach the Gentile world.
But this woman in Mark 5 did not speak
Greek. She spoke Aramaic, a close sister lan-
guage to Hebrew. She would have used the
word shalem and not the word sozo. She ex-
pected to be made entirely whole, nothing
missing, nothing broken.
Notice what Jesus said to her, and remem-
ber, He spoke in Aramaic.
Mark 5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace,
and be whole of thy plague.
He placed triple emphasis on wholeness by
using three words derived from the Hebrew
root shalem (whole). In the English transla-
tion they are whole, peace, whole. But the three
words He would have spoken are: “Thy faith
hath made thee shalem, go in shalom, and be
shalem of thy plague.”
She would not have missed the meaning.
Now I believe, though the Bible doesn’t say

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