STRONGS G4127:
πληγή,
πληγῆς,
ἡ (
πλήσσω), from
Homer down; the
Sept. chiefly for
מַכָּה, also for
מַגֵּפָה;
1. a blow, stripe: plural,
Luke 10:30; Luke 10:43;
Acts 16:23,
33;
2 Corinthians 6:5;
2 Corinthians 11:23;
a wound:
ἡ πληγή τοῦ θανάτου, deadly wound (
R. V. death-stroke),
Revelation 13:3,
12;
τῆς μαχαίρας, wound made by a sword (sword-stroke),
Revelation 13:14. (On its idiomatic omission (
Luke 12:47, etc.) cf.
Buttmann, 82 (72);
Winer's Grammar, § 64, 4.)
2. a public calamity, heavy affliction (cf. English
plague) (now tormenting now destroying the bodies of men, and sent by God as a punishment):
Revelation 9:18 (
Rec. omits),
Revelation 9:20;
Revelation 11:6;
15:1,
6,
8;
16:9,(
Revelation 16:21);
Revelation 18:4,
8;
21:9;
22:18. (Cf.
πληγή Διός,
Sophocles Aj. 137 (cf. 279); others.)
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