Encyclopedia entry
Fever
(Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter’s wife’s mother is said to have suffered from a “great fever” (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke’s professional exactitude in describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as in those times fevers were divided into the “great” and the “less.”
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Verses where Fever is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Acts 28:8
The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.
- Deuteronomy 28:22
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- Habakkuk 3:5
Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
- Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- John 4:52
So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour. ”
- Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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