Plague/blow/wound
πληγήStrong’s G4127plēgē
Appears in 20 verses of the New Testament
In short
Plēgē is the Greek word usually translated “plagues”, “plague” and “wound”. It appears in 20 verses of the New Testament.
“And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.”
Meaning
Usually translated “plagues”, “plague” and “wound”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- plagues 9
- plague 3
- wound 3
- wounds 2
- beatings 2
- of stripes 1
- blows 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 14
- Luke 2
- Acts 2
- 2 Corinthians 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 12:48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
- Acts 16:23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
- Acts 16:33And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
- 2 Corinthians 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
- 2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- Revelation 9:20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Greek dictionary
πληγή plēgē · plague/blow/wound
πληγή, ῆς, ἡ (πλήσσω), [in LXX chiefly for מַכָּה, also for מַגֵּפָה etc. ;] 1. a blow, stripe, wound: pl., Luk.10:30 12:48, Act.16:23, 33, 2Co.6:5 11:23; ἡ π. τ. θανάτου (RV, death-stroke), Rev.13:3, 12; τ. μαχαίρας, Rev.13:14. 2. Metaphorical, a calamity, plague: Rev.9:18, 20 11:6 15:1, 6 15:8 16:9, 21 18:4, 8 21:9 22:18.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plague” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLAGUE, noun
plag. [Latin plaga, a stroke; Gr. See Lick and Lay. The primary sense is a stroke or striking. So afflict is from the root of flog, and probably of the same family as plague ]
- Any thing troublesome or vexatious; but in this sense, applied to the vexations we suffer from men, and not to the unavoidable evils inflicted on us by Divine Providence.
- A pestilential disease; an acute, malignant and contagious disease that often prevails in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has at times infected the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality.
- A state of misery.
- Any great natural evil or calamity; as the ten plagues of Egypt.
All definitions and other forms of “plague”
PLAGUE, verb transitive
plag.
- To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind.
- To vex; to tease; to harass; to trouble; to embarrass; a very general and indefinite signification.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.