Boil
שְׁחִיןStrong’s H7822shechin (she-chin)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shechin is the Hebrew word usually translated “boil” and “boil of”. It appears in 12 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
- Boil, inflamed spot, inflammation, eruptionof man, leprosy, of man and beast
How it's translated
- the boil 6
- boil 2
- with boil 2
- a boil 1
- in the boil 1
- with boil of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Exodus 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:10And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
- Exodus 9:11And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
- Leviticus 13:18The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
- Leviticus 13:19And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
- Leviticus 13:20And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
- Leviticus 13:23But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁחִין shechin · boil
1) boil, inflamed spot, inflammation, eruption 1a) of man, leprosy, of man and beast
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.