International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
MOLLIFYmol'-i-fi (from rakhakh, "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: Isaiah 1:6, "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).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t.) To soften; to sooth; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
2. (v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
Strong's Hebrew
2470b. chalah -- to mollify, appease, entreat the favor of... << 2470a, 2470b. chalah. 2471 >>. to
mollify, appease, entreat the favor
of. Transliteration: chalah Short Definition: entreat. Word
... /hebrew/2470b.htm - 5k 7401. rakak -- to be tender, weak or soft
... be fainthearted, mollify, be, make softer, be tender. A primitive root; to
soften (intransitively or transitively), used figuratively ...
/hebrew/7401.htm - 6k
