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Inflammation

דַּלֶּ֫קֶתStrong’s H1816

dalleqet (dal-le-qet)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Dalleqet is the Hebrew word usually translated “inflammation”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.”
Deuteronomy 28:22 KJV
Meaning
  1. Inflammation
How it's translated
  • and with inflammation 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    דַּלֶּ֫קֶת dalleqet · inflammation

    inflammation

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “inflammation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    INFLAMMA'TION, noun

    [Latin inflammatio.]

    1. The act of setting on fire or inflaming.
    2. The state of being in flame.
    3. In medicine and surgery, a redness and swelling of any part of an animal body, attended with heat, pain and febrile symptoms.
    4. Violent excitement; heat; animosity; turbulence; as an inflammation of the body politic, or of parties.

    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.