Boil
אֲבַעְבֻּעֹתStrong’s H0076avabuah (a-va-bu-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avabuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “blisters”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Blisters, boils (from root, to swell up)
How it's translated
- blisters 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת avabuah · boil
blisters, boils (from root, to swell up)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “boil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOIL, verb intransitive
[Latin bullio, bulla, a bubble.]
- To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils.
- To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam.
- To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger.
- To be in boiling water; to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose.
All definitions and other forms of “boil”
- To bubble; to effervesce; as a mixture of acid and alkali.
BOIL, verb transitive
To dress or cook in boiling water; to seethe; to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling.
- To prepare for some use in boiling liquor; as, to boil silk, thread or cloth.
BOIL, noun
A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.