Fever
קַדַּ֫חַתStrong’s H6920qaddachat (qad-da-chat)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qaddachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “fever”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.”
Meaning
- Fever
How it's translated
- fever 1
- and with fever 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
קַדַּ֫חַת qaddachat · fever
fever
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fever” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FE'VER, noun
[Latin febris, supposed to be so written by transposition for ferbis, or fervis, from ferbeo, ferveo, to be hot.]
- A disease, characterized by an accelerated pulse, with increase of heat, impaired functions, diminished strength, and often with preternatural thirst.
- Heat; agitation; excitement by any thing that strongly affects the passions.
All definitions and other forms of “fever”
FE'VER, verb transitive
To put in a fever
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.