Lexical Summary pyretos: a fever Original Word: πυρετόςTransliteration: pyretos Phonetic Spelling: (poo-ret-os') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a fever Meaning: a fever Strong's Concordance fever. From puresso; inflamed, i.e. (by implication) feverish (as noun, fever) -- fever. see GREEK puresso Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4446: πυρετόςπυρετός, πυρετου, ὁ (πῦρ); 1. fiery heat (Homer, Iliad 22, 31 (but interpreters now give it the sense of 'fever' in this passage; cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word; Schmidt, Syn., chapter 60 § 14)). 2. fever: Matthew 8:15; Marki. 31; Luke 4:39; John 4:52; Acts 28:8, (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato, and following; Deuteronomy 28:22); πυρετῷ μεγάλῳ, Luke 4:38 (as Galen de diff. feb. 1, 1 says συνηθες τοῖς ἰατροῖς ὀνομάζειν ... τόν μέγαν τέ καί μικρόν πυρετον; (cf. Wetstein on Luke, the passage cited)). |
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