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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Burning inflammation (
Lev. 13:23
23
But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. (Leviticus 13:23)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
The common gathering on the
flesh
, attended with inflammation, which the
Hebrew
word
shechin
implies. The boils were doubtless malignant when sent as a plague in
Egypt
(
Ex. 9:9-11
9
And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
10
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
11
And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. (Exodus 9:9‑11)
); and they were severe in the case of
Job
when smitten by
Satan
(
Job 2:7
7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. (Job 2:7)
).
Hezekiah
’s boil was apparently of an aggravated
type
, though a lump of figs was blessed to his recovery (
2 Kings 20:7
7
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. (2 Kings 20:7)
;
Isa. 38:21
21
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. (Isaiah 38:21)
. See also
Lev. 13:18-23
18
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
19
And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be showed to the priest;
20
And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
21
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
22
And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
23
But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. (Leviticus 13:18‑23)
).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
1158
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
ba`ah
Phonic:
baw-aw’
Meaning:
a primitive root; to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
KJV Usage:
cause, inquire, seek up, swell out
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