Bible Thesaurus: Plague

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Plague (142 Occurrences)
... 25). (2.) The plague of frogs (Exodus 8:1-15). (3.) The plague of lice
(Hebrews kinnim, properly gnats or mosquitoes; Comp. Psalm ...
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Leprous (27 Occurrences)
... 13:2 When a man hath in the skin of his flesh a rising, or scab, or bright spot,
and it hath become in the skin of his flesh a leprous plague, then he hath ...
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Infectious (19 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or
a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy ...
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Infection (24 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or
a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy ...
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Article (17 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin,
or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the ...
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Mildew (26 Occurrences)
... Mildew (26 Occurrences). Leviticus 13:47 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy
is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment; (See NIV). ...
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Knitted (9 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin,
or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the ...
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Woof (9 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin,
or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the ...
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Deeper (18 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Leviticus 13:3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the
body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the ...
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Warp (9 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin,
or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the ...
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Bible Concordance

Plague (142 Occurrences)

Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Mark 5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Luke 18:5 yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'
(YLT)

Acts 24:5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
(WEB)

Revelation 6:8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
(See NIV)

Revelation 11:6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 8:2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
(WEB RSV NIV)

Exodus 9:3 behold, the hand of Jehovah shall be on thy cattle which is in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the oxen and on the sheep, with a very grievous plague.
(DBY RSV NIV)

Exodus 9:15 For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
(See NIV)

Exodus 10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
(See NIV)

Exodus 10:17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
(See NIV)

Exodus 11:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 12:13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 30:12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
(Root in KJV YLT RSV NIV)

Leviticus 13:2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
(KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:9 "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
(KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:20 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:29 "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT)

Leviticus 13:43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
(WEB JPS ASV YLT)

Leviticus 13:44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:45 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry,'Unclean! Unclean!'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:47 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:53 "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 13:59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp. The priest shall examine him, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying,'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:43 "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:48 "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 14:54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 26:21 "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 26:25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
(See NIV)

Numbers 8:19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
(See NIV)

Numbers 14:37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 16:47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 16:49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 16:50 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 25:9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 25:18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 26:1 It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV(

Numbers 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
(See NAS NIV)

Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 24:5 "'I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 4:8 Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 6:4 Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me."
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 24:21 Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:25 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Chronicles 21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:17 David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:29 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT)

2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:9 If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 21:14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Job 27:15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
(See NAS NIV)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Plague

See PESTILENCE.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A "stroke" of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Numbers 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Samuel 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Leviticus 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity (Mark 5:29; Luke 7:21), or the judgment of God, so called (Exodus 9:14). Plagues of Egypt were ten in number.

(1.) The river Nile was turned into blood, and the fish died, and the river stank, so that the Egyptians loathed to drink of the river (Exodus 7:14-25).

(2.) The plague of frogs (Exodus 8:1-15).

(3.) The plague of lice (Hebrews kinnim, properly gnats or mosquitoes; Comp. Psalm 78:45; 105:31), "out of the dust of the land" (Exodus 8:16-19).

(4.) The plague of flies (Hebrews arob, rendered by the LXX. dog-fly), Exodus 8:21-24.

(5.) The murrain (Exodus 9:1-7), or epidemic pestilence which carried off vast numbers of cattle in the field. Warning was given of its coming.

(6.) The sixth plague, of "boils and blains," like the third, was sent without warning (Exodus 9:8-12). It is called (Deuteronomy 28:27) "the botch of Egypt," A.V.; but in R.V., "the boil of Egypt." "The magicians could not stand before Moses" because of it.

(7.) The plague of hail, with fire and thunder (Exodus 9:13-33). Warning was given of its coming. (Comp. Psalm 18:13; 105:32, 33).

(8.) The plague of locusts, which covered the whole face of the earth, so that the land was darkened with them (Exodus 10:12-15). The Hebrew name of this insect, arbeh, points to the "multitudinous" character of this visitation. Warning was given before this plague came.

(9.) After a short interval the plague of darkness succeeded that of the locusts; and it came without any special warning (Exodus 10:21-29). The darkness covered "all the land of Egypt" to such an extent that "they saw not one another." It did not, however, extend to the land of Goshen.

(10.) The last and most fearful of these plagues was the death of the first-born of man and of beast (Exodus 11:4, 5; 12:29, 30). The exact time of the visitation was announced, "about midnight", which would add to the horror of the infliction. Its extent also is specified, from the first-born of the king to the first-born of the humblest slave, and all the first-born of beasts. But from this plague the Hebrews were completely exempted. The Lord "put a difference" between them and the Egyptians. (see PASSOVER.)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

2. (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.

3. (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

4. (v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PLAGUE

plag (negha`, makkah, maggephah; mastix, plege): This word which occurs more than 120 times is applied, like pestilence, to such sudden outbursts of disease as are regarded in the light of divine visitations. It is used in the description of leprosy about 60 times in Leviticus 13 and 14, as well as in Deuteronomy 24:8. In the poetical, prophetic and eschatological books it occurs about 20 times in the general sense of a punitive disaster. The Gospel references (Mark 3:10; Mark 5:29, 34 Luke 7:21) use the word as a synonym for disease.

The specific disease now named "plague" has been from the earliest historic times a frequent visitant to Palestine and Egypt. Indeed in the Southeast between Gaza and Bubastis it has occurred so frequently that it may almost be regarded as endemic. The suddenness of its attack, the shortness of its incubation period and the rapidity of its course give it the characters which of old have been associated with manifestations of divine anger. In the early days of an epidemic it is no infrequent occurrence that 60 per cent of those attacked die within three days. I have seen a case in which death took place ten hours after the first symptoms. In the filthy and insanitary houses of eastern towns, the disease spreads rapidly. In a recent epidemic in one village of 534 inhabitants 311 died within 21 days, and I once crossed the track of a party of pilgrims to Mecca of whom two-thirds died of plague on the road. Even with modern sanitary activity, it is very difficult to root it out, as our recent experiences in Hong Kong and India have shown.

Of the Biblical outbreaks that were not improbably bubonic plague, the first recorded is the slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt-the 10th plague. We have too little information to identify it (Exodus 11:1). The Philistines, however, used the same name, negha`, for the Egyptian plagues (1 Samuel 4:8) as is used in Exodus. The next outbreak was at Kibroth-hataavah (Numbers 11:33). This was synchronous with the phenomenal flight of quails, and if these were, as is probable, driven by the wind from the plague-stricken Serbonian region, they were equally probably the carriers of the infection. Experience in both India and China has shown that animals of very diverse kinds can carry germs of the disease. A third visitation fell on the spies who brought back an evil report (Numbers 14:37). A fourth destroyed those who murmured at the destruction of Korah and his fellow-rebels (Numbers 16:47). These may have been recrudescences of the infection brought by the quails. The fifth outbreak was that which followed the gross religious and moral defection at, Baal-peor (Numbers 25:8, 9, 18; Numbers 26:1; Numbers 31:16 Joshua 22:17 Psalm 106:29, 30). Here the disease was probably conveyed by the Moabites.

A later epidemic, which was probably of bubonic plague, was that which avenged the capture of the ark (1 Samuel 5:6). We read of the tumors which were probably the glandular enlargements characteristic of this disease; also that at the time there was a plague of rats (1 Samuel 6:5)-"mice," in our version, but the word is also used as the name of the rat. The cattle seem to have carried the plague to Beth-shemesh, as has been observed in more than one place in China (1 Samuel 6:19). Concerning the three days' pestilence that followed David's census (2 Samuel 24:15 1 Chronicles 21:12), see Josephus, Ant, VII, xiii, 3. The destruction of the army of Sennacherib may have been a sudden outbreak of plague (2 Kings 19:35 Isaiah 37:36). It is perhaps worthy of note that in Herodotus' account of the destruction of this army (ii.141) he refers to the incursion of swarms of mice.

One of the latest prophetic mentions of plague is Hosea 13:14, where the plague (debher, Septuagint dike) of death and the destruction (qaTabh, Septuagint kentron) of the grave are mentioned. From this passage Paul quotes his apostrophe at the end of 1 Corinthians 15:55, but the apostle correlates the sting (kentron) with death, and changes the dike into nikos.

Alexander Macalister

Greek

3148. mastix -- a whip, scourge
... 3148 -- properly, a disease that (literally) carried a level of pain (the root
is, "a plague"). "The plague ... 1). plague, scourging. Probably ...
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4127. plege -- a blow, wound
... Feminine Transliteration: plege Phonetic Spelling: (play-gay') Short Definition:
a blow, stripe, wound Definition: a blow, stripe, wound; an affliction, plague ...
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3061. loimos -- pestilence, a pest
... pestilence. Of uncertain affinity; a plague (literally, the disease, or
figuratively, a pest) -- pestilence(-t). (loimoi) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5061. nega -- a stroke, plague, mark
... nega. 5062 . a stroke, plague, mark. Transliteration: nega Phonetic Spelling:
(neh'-gah) Short Definition: mark. ... plague, sore, stricken, stripe, stroke, wound. ...
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4046. maggephah -- a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
... 4045, 4046. maggephah. 4047 . a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence.
Transliteration: maggephah Phonetic Spelling: (mag-gay-faw') Short Definition: plague. ...
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5063. negeph -- a blow, a striking
... 5062, 5063. negeph. 5064 . a blow, a striking. Transliteration: negeph Phonetic
Spelling: (neh'-ghef) Short Definition: plague. ... plague, stumbling. ...
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4347. makkah -- a blow, wound, slaughter
... nakah Definition a blow, wound, slaughter NASB Word Usage blow (1), casualties
(1), crushed (1), disasters (1), inflicted (1), injury (1), plague (3), plagues ...
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1698. deber -- pestilence
... Word Origin from dabar Definition pestilence NASB Word Usage pestilence
(38), plague (10), thorns (1). murrain, pestilence, plague. ...
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5062. nagaph -- to strike, smite
... beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite down, strike, stumble,. A primitive
root; to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a ...
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4194. maveth -- death
... Word Origin from muth Definition death NASB Word Usage dead (4), deadly (3), Death
(2), death (129), die (7), died (9), dies (6), plague (1). ...
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5060. naga -- to touch, reach, strike
... strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.) -- beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast,
come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up ...
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7565. resheph -- flame
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition flame NASB Word Usage bolts of lightning
(1), flaming (1), flashes (2), plague (2), sparks* (1). ...
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Library

Joel's Rhapsody of the Locust Plague
... LYRICS JOEL'S RHAPSODY OF THE LOCUST PLAGUE. i The Land Desolate and Mourning. OLD
MEN. Hear this, ye old men, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land! ...
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March 18. "Neither Shall any Plague Come Near Thy Dwelling" (Ps. ...
... MARCH 18. "Neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling" (Ps. xci. 10). "Neither
shall any plague come near thy dwelling" (Psalm 91:10). ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /march 18 neither shall any.htm

On his Father'S Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail.
... Oration XVI. On His Father'S Silence, Because Of The Plague Of Hail. On His
Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. ThisOration ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xvi on his fathers.htm

The Word, Since Death Alone could Stay the Plague, Took a Mortal ...
... Section 9. The Word, since death alone could stay the plague, took a mortal body
which, united with Him, should avail for all, and by partaking of His ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/section 9 the word since.htm

Concerning the Ten Plagues which came Upon the Egyptians.
... knew not what to do in these surprising circumstances, and was in fear for the
Egyptians, he gave the Hebrews leave to go away; but when the plague ceased, he ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 14 concerning the ten.htm

On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge.
... Within a few yards of the very spot on which we are assembled, so the tradition
runs, that painful and deadly malady, the plague, appeared in the latter months ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/i on the advisableness of.htm

On the Holy Ghost and his Descent Upon the Apostles
... The first plague was blood. ... (Ex.7). The king then sent for Moses and promised that
if he would take away the plague he would allow all the people to depart. ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 9 on the holy.htm

St. Cyprian.
... PART II((AD 253-257). Shortly after the end of the persecution, a terrible plague
passed through the empire, and carried off vast numbers of people. ...
/.../chapter viii st cyprian.htm

Of the Disasters which Vexed the Roman Republic after the ...
... Nay, during this plague, they introduced a new pestilence of scenic entertainments,
which spread its more fatal contagion, not to the bodies, but the morals of ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 17 of the disasters which.htm

How Egbert, a Holy Man of the English Nation, Led a Monastic Life ...
... By this plague the aforesaid priest of the Lord, Tuda, was carried off, and was
honourably buried in the monastery called Paegnalaech.^2 Moreover, this plague ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxvii how egbert a.htm

Subtopics

Plague

Plague of Boils and Open Sores

Plague: As a Judgment on the Egyptians

Plague: Darkness

Plague: Death of the Firstborn

Plague: Denounced As a Judgment

Plague: On the Israelites for the Sin of Peor