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PLAGUE, n. plag. L. plaga, a stroke Gr. See Lick and Lay. The primary sense is a stroke or striking. So afflict is from the root of flog, and probably of the same family as plague.
1. Any thing troublesome or vexatious but in this sense, applied to the vexations we suffer from men, and not to the unavoidable evils inflicted on us by Divine Providence. The application of the word to the latter, would now be irreverent and reproachful.
2. A pestilential disease an acute, malignant and contagious disease that often prevails in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has at times infected the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality.
3. A state of misery. Psalms 38
4. Any great natural evil or calamity as the ten plagues of Egypt.
PLAGUE, plag.
1. To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind.
Thus were they plagued
And worn with famine.
2. To vex to tease to harass to trouble to embarrass a very general and indefinite signification.
If her nature be so,
That she will plague the man that loves her most--
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Plague'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/plague.html.
Entry for 'Plague'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/plague.html.
