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πίμπρημι

pímprēmi · G4092 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to have a fever, fever

    To be sick with a fever

    Examples

    Acts 28:6 Now they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

  2. to swell up

    To swell up, a sense of the word listed with only this gloss and no further definition

    Examples

    Acts 28:6 Now they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

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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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Semantic domains 2 entries
To have a fever, fever23.159
πίμπρημι describes the body becoming inflamed, as with fever. Luke's account of Paul on Malta describes the onlookers' expectation after a viper bit him: “they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead” (Acts 28:6, where the underlying verb names the feverish inflammation they anticipated).
To swell up23.163
The same word, read most literally in English rendering, names visible bodily swelling rather than fever as such. Luke continues, “after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god” (Acts 28:6, describing the crowd's changed verdict once the expected swelling never appeared).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (for the more common πίμπρημι (cf. Curtius, § 378, Vanicek, p. 510f)): (present…
(for the more common πίμπρημι (cf. Curtius, § 378, Vanicek, p. 510f)): (present infinitive passive πίμπρασθαι; but R G L Tr WH πίμπρασθαι from the form πίμπρημι (Tdf. ἐμπίπρασθαι, which see)); in Greek writings from Homer ((yet only the aorist from πρήθω)) down; to blow, to burn (on the connection between these meanings cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer, under the word πρήθω); in the Scriptures four times to cause to swell, to render tumid (cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word): γαστέρα, Num 5:22; passive, to swell, become swollen, of parts of the body, Num 5:21, 27: Acts 28:6 (see above and in ἐμπιπράω). (Compare: ἐμπιπράω.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Sickness, Disease, Weakness2 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

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