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Fever

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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A — 1: πυρετός

(Strong's #4446 — Noun Masculine — puretos — poo-ret-os' )

"feverish heat" (from pur, "fire"), hence, "a fever," occurs in Matthew 8:15; Mark 1:31; John 4:52; Acts 28:8; in Luke 4:38 , with megas, "great, a high fever;" ver. 39. Luke, as a physician, uses the medical distinction by which the ancients classified fevers into great and little. In the Sept., Deuteronomy 28:22 .

B — 1: πυρέσσω

(Strong's #4445 — Verb — puresso — poo-res'-so )

signifies "to be ill of a fever" (akin to A), Matthew 8:14; Mark 1:30 .

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Fever'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​f/fever.html. 1940.
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