A WELT — the raised bruise a blow leaves, from chavar, to bind or join. 'With his stripes we are healed' (Isaiah 53:5, KJV) makes it a lash-mark; the noun is blunter and more physical than 'stripe', which in English has drifted toward decoration. Genesis 4:23 uses it of the wound Cain's descendant Lamech boasts of. → first discussed at Isaiah 53:5