Mṓlōps (μώλωψ) means a bruise, weal, or stripe left by a blow or flogging — the mark on skin from a lash. It appears once in the NT, in a passage of enormous theological significance.
First Peter 2:24 quotes Isaiah 53:5: 'He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross... by his wounds (mōlōpi) you have been healed.' The singular mōlōpi is a collective — the totality of Christ's wounds in His flogging and crucifixion. Isaiah 53 was written 700 years before the cross yet describes it with precision. Christ's wounds are our healing — His pain purchased our peace. The one who bore stripes without retaliation is the pattern for all who suffer unjustly.