Words the Bible translates as plague
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- thanatosθάνατοςa deadly plague or pestilence: death dealt out as a sweeping disaster
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- death: the end of life, and the power that holds the living under its sway
- mavetמָוֶתdeath: the end of life, whether the event of dying or the state of being dead
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- Death as a realm and power: the grasping domain of the dead, sometimes pictured almost as a person
- death as penalty or deadly threat: the sentence of death, or being marked out to die
- nagaנָגַעto make contact: for one thing to reach another and touch it, whether lightly, harmfully, or all the way to a place or time
- plēgēπληγήa plague: a crushing blow of calamity sent as divine judgment
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- a blow or beating, and the wound it leaves on the body
- negaנֶגַעa blow that lands as a sending from God: a plague, calamity, or stroke of discipline understood as coming from his hand.
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- the suspect mark a priest inspects: the sore on skin, or the discoloration in cloth or a house wall, presented to be ruled clean or unclean.
- deverדֶּבֶרpestilence: a deadly epidemic disease, almost always pictured as a judgment God sends on a people
- nagaphנָגַףto hit something hard enough to damage it: a collision, whether an animal against an animal, a foot against a stone, an army broken in defeat, or God striking with plague.
- makkahמַכָּהa blow and what it leaves behind: a strike, the wound it makes, a crushing defeat in battle, or an affliction sent by God
- mastixμάστιξa whip, and the flogging carried out with it
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- a severe bodily affliction pictured as a lash falling on a person: a tormenting disease
- maggephahמַגֵּפָהa deadly blow: a striking that brings sudden mass death, whether by disease or by the sword
- negephנֶגֶףa striking blow: the impact that brings something down, whether a deadly stroke against a people or a foot hitting a stone
- reshephרֶשֶׁףburning plague: a lethal, fever-like scourge that consumes a person, sent as God's judgment
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- a burning flash: a flame, spark, or fiery bolt that flares up or flies through the air
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