'Welfare' in the Bible
He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?
Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."