Words the Bible translates as stroke
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- 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.
- maggephahמַגֵּפָהa deadly blow: a striking that brings sudden mass death, whether by disease or by the sword
- ma'avarahמַעֲבָרָהa crossing: the ford of a river or the narrow pass through rough ground where people go over, and once the passing sweep of a rod
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