BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G4446
puretos — fever
πυρετός, -οῦ, ὁ (πῦρ) [in LXX: Deu.28:22 (קַדַּחַת) * ;] a fever: Mat.8:15, Mrk.1:31, Luk.4:39, Jhn.4:52, Act.28:8; π. μέγας, a high fever: Luk.4:38 (on the technical phrase here, see MM, xxii).† (AS)
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6920
qad.da.chat — fever
fever
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2534
che.mah — rage
1) heat, rage, hot displeasure, indignation, anger, wrath, poison, bottles 1a) heat 1a1) fever 1a2) venom, poison (fig.) 1b) burning anger, rage Aramaic equivalent: che.ma (חֱמָא "rage" H2528)
88 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2741
kausoō — to burn
καυσόω, -ῶ (καῦσος, burning heat, fever), only in pass., 1. to burn with fever (Galen., al.). 2. In NT, to burn with great heat: 2Pe.3:10 3:12 (V. Mayor, in l).† (AS)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4445
puressō — be feverish
πυρέσσω (πῦρ) to be ill of a fever: Mat.8:14, Mrk.1:3.† (AS)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2746
char.chur — heat
extreme heat, inflammation, violent heat, fever
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8741
periodos — a circuit
1. a going round, a flank march , (Herdotus Historicus) 2. a way round, the circumference, circuit, compass , τοῦ τείχεος, τῆς λίμνης (Herdotus Historicus); absolute, τὴν π. in circumference , (Herdotus Historicus) 3. γῆς π. a chart or map of the earth (compare πίναξ); (Herdotus Historicus) 4. a going round in a circle, circuit , (Plutarch) 5. of Time, a cycle or period of time , (Pindar), etc. 6. a prescribed course of life, system , (Plato Philosophus) 7. a fit of intermittent fever, (Demosthenes Orator) 8. = περιφορά, a course at dinner , (Xenophon Historicus); π. λόγων table-talk , (Xenophon Historicus) 9. the orbit of a heavenly body , (Xenophon Historicus) 10. a well-rounded sentence, period , (Aristotle Philosopher) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9000
purphoros — a fire-bearer
1. fire-bearing , (Aeschulus Tragicus); of lightning, (Pindar):—; πυρφόροι ὀϊστοί arrows with combustibles tied to them , (Thucydides) 2. in special senses, 3. epithet of Zeus in reference to his lightnings, (Sophocles Tragicus); of Demeter, in reference to the torches used by her worshippers, (Euripides); of Artemis, (Sophocles Tragicus); but θεὸς πυρφόρος the fire-bearing god, the god who produces plague or fever , (Sophocles Tragicus) 4. ὁ πυρφόρος, in the Lacedaemonian army, was the priest who kept the sacrificial fire , which was never allowed to go out, (Xenophon Historicus); hence proverbial of a total defeat, ἔδεε δὲ μηδὲ πυρφόρον περιγενέσθαι (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9497
tritaios — three days
1. on the third day , used with Verbs so as to agree with the subject, τριταῖοι ἐγένοντο ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ (Herdotus Historicus); ἐσβεβληκὼς τριταῖος ἐς Μηλιέας having invaded Melis three days before , (Herdotus Historicus); τρ. γενόμενος after being three days dead, (Herdotus Historicus):—; τριταῖος (i.e. πυρετός); a tertian fever , (Plato Philosophus) 2. of events, lasting three days , (Euripides) 3. generally for τρίτος, (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter’s wife’s mother is said to have suffered from a “great fever” (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke’s professional exactitude in describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as in those times fevers were divided into the “great” and the “less.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
