Strong's Lexicon

G1420

G1420 — δυσεντερία

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreekdusenterianounOccurrences: 1

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G1420
Word:δυσεντερία
Part of Speech:noun
Etymology:from G1418 and a comparative of G1787 (meaning a bowel)
Language:Greek
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:dusenteria
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:doos-en-ter-ee'-ah
Meaning:1. a "dysentery"
KJV Renderings:bloody flux

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

δυσεντερίᾳ, δυσεντεριας, (ἔντερον, intestine), dysentery (Latintormina intestinorum, bowel-complaint): Act 28:8 R G; see the following word. (Hippocrates and medical writers; Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, others.)

STRONGS NT 1420: δυσεντέριονδυσεντέριον, δυσεντεριου, τό, a later form for δυσεντερίᾳ, which see: Act 28:8 LT Tr WH. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 518.

Englishman's Greek Concordance

δυσεντερία (bloody flux)

Acts 28:8

KJV: And it came to pass that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux to whom Paul entered in and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him
GK: εγένετο δε τον πατέρα του Ποπλίου πυρετοίς και δυσεντερία συνεχόμενον κατακείσθαι προς ον ο Παύλος εισελθών και προσευξάμενος επιθείς τας χείρας αυτώ ιασάτο αυτόν
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