Word

ἕλκος

hélkos · G1668 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

sore, ulcer

A painful, ulcerated sore resulting from infection

Examples
Luke 16:21 and longing to be fed from the scraps which fell from the rich man’s table; not only that, the dogs also were coming and licking his sores.
Revelation 16:2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and a harmful and painful sore afflicted the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
Revelation 16:11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 2 groups

κακόςevil, bad, harm 1
πονηρόςevil, wicked, bad 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

ἔρχομαιto come 1
ἀπολείχωto lick 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐκfrom 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

שְׁחִין shᵉchîyn · H7822 · boil, inflammation: Hebrew שְׁחִין (boil, botch) serves as the standard translation equivalent for Greek ἕλκος (ulcer) in LXX contexts describing skin afflictions and sores, both denoting pathological lesions on the body.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Sore, ulcer23.179: Used in Luke 16:21, of the poor man Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table, and in Revelation 16:2 and 16:11, of the loathsome and malignant sores that came upon those who bore the mark of the beast.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἕλκοςhélkos · G1668ἑλκόω helkóō · G1669 · to have sores, to have ulcers, to be full of sores · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἑλκεος (ἕλκους) (cf. Latinulcus,ulcerare; perhaps akin to ἕλκω (Etym. Magn. 331, 3; 641,…

ἑλκεος (ἕλκους) (cf. Latinulcus,ulcerare; perhaps akin to ἕλκω (Etym. Magn. 331, 3; 641, 3), yet cf. Curtius, § 23), τό;
1. a wound, especially a suppurated wound; so in Homer and earlier writings.
2. from (Thucydides), Theophrastus, Polybius on, a sore, an ulcer: Rev 16:2; plural, Lk 16:21; Rev 16:11. (for שְׁחִין, Ex 9:9; Job 2:7, etc.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sickness, Disease, Weakness3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0