Epilepsy
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Epilepsy
... loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Int. Standard
Bible Encyclopedia. EPILEPSY. ep'-i-lep-si. See LUNATIC. ...
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Epileptic (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy. 2. (n.) One
affected with epilepsy. 3. (n.) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy. ...
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Lunatick (2 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia LUNATIC(K). lu'-na-tik: I. Epilepsy. 1.
Incorrect Translation: The English word "lunatic," which ...
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Fit (47 Occurrences)
... 15. (n.) A stroke or blow. 16. (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a
stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or ...
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Disease (213 Occurrences)
... Fevers of several kinds, dysentery, leprosy, intestinal worms, plague, nervous diseases
such as paralysis and epilepsy, insanity, ophthalmia and skin diseases ...
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Daemoniac
... permitted by God to exercise an influence both over the souls and bodies of men,
inflicting dumbness (Matthew 9:32), blindness (12:22), epilepsy (Mark 9:17-27 ...
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Diseases (38 Occurrences)
... Fevers of several kinds, dysentery, leprosy, intestinal worms, plague, nervous diseases
such as paralysis and epilepsy, insanity, ophthalmia and skin diseases ...
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Smiting (76 Occurrences)
... The latter was supposed to cause lunacy (hence, the name), and epilepsy, so in Matthew
4:24 the word rendered "lunatic" (the King James Version) for "epileptic ...
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Thorn (30 Occurrences)
... Krenkel has at great length argued that it was epilepsy, and thereby endeavors to
account for his trances and his falling to the earth on his way to Damascus ...
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Sun (1708 Occurrences)
... The latter was supposed to cause lunacy (hence, the name), and epilepsy, so in Matthew
4:24 the word rendered "lunatic" (the King James Version) for "epileptic ...
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Greek
875. aphrizo -- to foam at the mouth
... foam. From aphros; to froth at the mouth (in epilepsy) -- foam. see GREEK aphros.
(aphrizei) -- 1 Occurrence. (aphrizon) -- 1 Occurrence. << 874, 875. ...
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4682. sparasso -- to mangle, convulse
... from spairo (to grasp; apparently strengthened from spao through the idea of spasmodic
contraction); to mangle, ie Convluse with epilepsy -- rend, tear. ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
EPILEPSY

ep'-i-lep-si.

See LUNATIC.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.
Epicureans
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