Boil
Boil
(, shechin’, rendered “botch” in Deu 28:27; Deu 28:35), a burning sore or inflamed ulcer of an aggravated description, either local (as in the case of Hezekiah, 2Ki 20:7; Isa 38:21), or covering an extensive surface (as in the case of the Egyptians, Exo 9:9-11; Deu 28:27; Deu 28:35). SEE BLAINS. It is also applied to the ulcerated spots indicative of leprosy (Lev 13:18-20; Lev 13:23), and is the term used to designate the disease of Job (Job 2:7), probably the elephantiasis, or black leprosy. SEE LEPROSY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Boil (2)
(, shechin’, rendered “botch” in Deu 28:27; Deu 28:35), a burning sore or inflamed ulcer of an aggravated description, either local (as in the case of Hezekiah, 2Ki 20:7; Isa 38:21), or covering an extensive surface (as in the case of the Egyptians, Exo 9:9-11; Deu 28:27; Deu 28:35). SEE BLAINS. It is also applied to the ulcerated spots indicative of leprosy (Lev 13:18-20; Lev 13:23), and is the term used to designate the disease of Job (Job 2:7), probably the elephantiasis, or black leprosy. SEE LEPROSY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Boil
(rendered “botch” in Deut. 28:27, 35), an aggravated ulcer, as in the case of Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:7; Isa. 38:21) or of the Egyptians (Ex. 9:9, 10, 11; Deut. 28:27, 35). It designates the disease of Job (2:7), which was probably the black leprosy.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Boil (1)
(noun) (, shehn; , helkos): A localized inflamed swelling. The Hebrew word is derived from a root probably meaning to burn, and is used as a generic term for the sores in the sixth plague of Egypt (Exo 9:9-11); for a sore which might be confounded with leprosy (Lev 13:18-23); for Job’s malady (Job 2:7) and Hezekiah’s disease (2Ki 20:1; Isa 38:21). Our English word is derived from the verb to beal, i.e. to suppurate, now obsolete except as a dialect word in Scotland and Ireland. Wyclif uses the name f or Lazarus’ sores (Luk 16:20), houndis lickeden his bylis. The Egyptian word shn is the name of an abscess, and occurs in the reduplicated form hnhnt in Papyr. Ebers, CV. The plague of boils in Egypt came without warning immediately after the insect plagues of kinnm (sandflies) and that of arobh or flies, and followed the epizotic murrain, which is suggestive in the light of the transmission of toxic germs by insects. It has been supposed by some to be elephantiasis, as Pliny says that this di sease was peculiar to Egypt (xxvi.5). A stronger case has been made out for its identity with confluent smallpox; but as it is not described as being a fatal disease, it may more probably have been an aggravated form of the ordinary gregarious furuncles or boils, due to the microbe streptococcus pyogenes.
Job’s body is said to have been covered with itchy, irritating sores which made his face unrecognizable, Job 2:12, caused continual burning pain (Job 3:24; Job 6:4), and which were infested with maggots (Job 7:5) and exhaled a nauseous fetor (Job 19:17). His sleep was destroyed and his nervous system enfeebled (Job 3:26) so that he required assistance to move, as he sat in the ashes (Job 2:8). Various diagnoses have been made of his malady, but it is most probable that it was a form of the disease known as oriental sore, or Bagdad boil, called in Algeria Biskra batton, in which the intensely itchy sores are often multiple, affecting the face, hands, and other exposed parts. The cases which I have seen have been very intractable and disfiguring.
Hezekiah’s boil was apparently more localized, and the indefinite description would accord with that of a carbuncle. It seems to have rendered him unclean (Isa 38:22), though the reference may be to the practice referred to in Lev 13:18 f. The botch of Egypt (Deu 28:27, Deu 28:35 the King James Version) is translation of the same word, as is boil in the Revised Version (British and American). Botch is an old English name for boil and occurs in Piers Plowman, and the adjective botchy is used in Troilus and Cressida (II, 1, 6). The word is cognate to the old French boche or poche, a form of our later word pock. The sores of Lazarus (Luk 16:20) were probably old varicose ulcers, such as are as common on the legs of the old and poor in the East as they are in the West.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Boil (2)
(verb) (, bashal, , rathah): Boil is the translation of bashal, to bubble up, to boil, to be cooked, Piel, to cause to boil, to cook (Lev 8:31; 1Ki 19:21; 2Ki 6:29; Eze 46:20, Eze 46:24 bis); of rathah, to be hot, to boil, to be made to boil, to be greatly moved under strong emotion (the bowels), Hiphil to cause to boil (Job 30:27 the King James Version My bowels boiled, and rested not, the English Revised Version My bowels boil. the American Standard Revised Version My heart is troubled; Job 41:31, He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; Eze 24:5, make it boil well); of baah, to bubble or well up (Isa 64:2 (1, in Hebrew) The fire causeth the waters to boil); in King James Version, margin of Psa 45:1 (My heart is inditing a good matter) we have Hebrew boileth or bubbleth up (rahash, to boil or bubble up, the Revised Version (British and American) text, My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter).
Boiling-places, occurs in Eze 46:23 as the translation of mebhashsheloth, hearths, boiling-places. The American Standard Revised Version has boiling-houses for places of them that boil (Eze 46:24), boil well for consume (Eze 24:10); the American Standard Revised Version has boiling over for unstable (Gen 49:4; the English Revised Version, margin bubbling over).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Boil
The common gathering on the flesh, attended with inflammation, which the Hebrew word shechin implies. The boils were doubtless malignant when sent as a plague in Egypt, Exo 9:9-11; and they were severe in the case of Job when smitten by Satan. Job 2:7. Hezekiah’s boil was apparently of an aggravated type, though a lump of figs was blessed to his recovery. 2Ki 20:7; Isa 38:21. See also Lev 13:18-23.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Boil
A tumor.
Plague of Egyptians
Exo 9:9-10; Deu 28:27; Deu 28:35
Plague of the Philistines
1Sa 5:6; 1Sa 5:9; 1Sa 6:5
Of Hezekiah, healed
2Ki 20:7; Isa 38:21
Of Job
Job 2:7-8
Levitical ceremonies prescribed for
Lev 13:18-23
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Boil
Boil. See Medicine.