אֲבַעְבֻּעָה
ʼăbaʻbuʻâh · H76 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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Swelling or inflammation of the skin that has started festering and producing pus; regarded as a serious condition and affecting one's social life (open sore, festering (boil))
ExamplesExodus 9:9 “Then it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will turn into boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal through all the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses tossed it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal.
How it’s used
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Near synonyms 2 words
- שְׁחִין shᵉchîyn · H7822 · boil, inflammation
- שְׁחִין refers to boils or inflammatory skin eruptions in general, while אֲבַעְבֻּעָה specifically denotes the pustular blains/blisters that appeared as part of the sixth plague (Exod 9:9-10); both describe pathological skin lesions but שְׁחִין is the broader term
- צָרַעַת tsâraʻath · H6883 · skin disease, mildew
- צָרַעַת encompasses a range of serious skin diseases with ritual impurity implications, whereas אֲבַעְבֻּעָה refers specifically to the blistering eruptions of the plague context; both describe serious dermatological conditions
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אֲבַעְבֻּעָה names the boils or blisters that broke out on people and animals as one of the plagues on Egypt.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H76. ababuah אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת noun feminine plural blisters, boils (אֲבַעְבּוּעְיָן ᵑ7;…
אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת noun feminine plural blisters, boils (אֲבַעְבּוּעְיָן ᵑ7; compare בֶּעְבַּע ᵑ7, Late Hebrew בּוּעָה בַּעְבּוּעַ, Syriac ) Exo 9:9 אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת מֹּרֵחַ שְׁחִין, compare Exo 9:10.
בוץ so Thes, better ביץ (compare Arabic surpass in whiteness; whiteness).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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