Lexicon helkos: a wound, a sore, an ulcer Original Word: ἕλκος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: helkos Phonetic Spelling: (hel'-kos) Short Definition: a festering sore Definition: a (festering) sore, a wound. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably from a prim. root Definitiona wound, a sore, an ulcer NASB Translationsore (1), sores (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1668: ἕλκοςἕλκος, ἑλκεος ( ἕλκους) (cf. Latin ulcus, 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: Revelation 16:2; plural, Luke 16:21; Revelation 16:11. (for שְׁחִין, Exodus 9:9; Job 2:7, etc.)
Strong's sore. Probably from helkuo; an ulcer (as if drawn together) -- sore. see GREEK helkuo |
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