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Strong's #4446 - πυρετός
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πῠρετ-ός, ὁ,
( πῦρ )
burning heat, fiery heat, φέρει πυρετὸν δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσιν (sc. Sirius) Il. 22.31 .
II fever, Hp. Aph. 2.26, Ar. V. 1038 (pl.), etc.; θνήσκειν ἐκ π . Epigr.Gr. 247 ( Mysia ); π. ἀμφημερινοί, τριταῖοι, τεταρταῖοι, quotidian, tertian, quartan fevers, Pl. Ti. 86a, etc. (v. sub. vocc.); διαλείποντες Arist. Pr. 866a23 .
πυρετός, 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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πυρετός , -οῦ , ὁ (< πῦρ ),
[in LXX: Deuteronomy 28:22 (H6920) *;]
a fever: Matthew 8:15, Mark 1:31, Luke 4:39, John 4:52, Acts 28:8; Papyri μέγας , a high fever: Luke 4:38 (on the technical phrase here, v. MM, xxii).†
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