STRONGS G4446:
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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