Bible Dictionary
HURT
Hurt means harm, injury, bruising, breaking, or wrongdoing. Scripture may use it for physical damage, injustice, or the moral corruption of a person or community.
Biblical Usage
Scripture uses “hurt” for evil or harm, physical breaking and bruising, and injustice. In Jeremiah it can represent moral disease or corruption. The Revised Version sometimes replaces the word with “evil,” “harm,” “injury,” “breach,” “bruise,” or “sick,” according to the context.