Strong's Greek: 1669. ἑλκόω (helkoó) -- to wound, to ulcerate, pass. to suffer from sores

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Lexicon

helkoó: to wound, to ulcerate, pass. to suffer from sores

Original Word: ἑλκόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: helkoó
Phonetic Spelling: (hel-ko'-o)
Short Definition: I afflict with sores
Definition: I afflict with sores; pass: I am afflicted with sores.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from helkos
Definition
to wound, to ulcerate, pass. to suffer from sores
NASB Translation
covered with sores (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 1669: ἑλκόω

ἑλκόω, ἕλκω: to make sore, cause to ulcerate (Hippocrates and medical writers); passive to be ulcerated; perfect participle passive ἡλκωμένος (L T Tr WH εἱλκωμένος (WHs Appendix, p. 161; Winers Grammar, § 12, 8; Buttmann, 34 (30))), full of sores: Luke 16:20 (Xenophon, de re. eq. 1, 4; 5, 1).

Strong's

full of sores or ulcers

From helkos; to cause to ulcerate, i.e. (passively) be ulcerous -- full of sores.

see GREEK helkos