STRONGS NUMBER G4446


Word Summary
pyretos: a fever
Original Word: πυρετός
Transliteration: pyretos
Phonetic Spelling: (poo-ret-os')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a fever
Meaning: a fever
Strong's Concordance
fever.

From puresso; inflamed, i.e. (by implication) feverish (as noun, fever) -- fever.

see GREEK puresso

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4446: πυρετός

πυρετός, πυρετου, (πῦρ);

1. fiery heat (Homer, Iliad 22, 31 (but interpreters now give it the sense of 'fever' in this passage; cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word; Schmidt, Syn., chapter 60 § 14)).

2. fever: Matthew 8:15; Marki. 31; Luke 4:39; John 4:52; Acts 28:8, (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato, and following; Deuteronomy 28:22); πυρετῷ μεγάλῳ, Luke 4:38 (as Galen de diff. feb. 1, 1 says συνηθες τοῖς ἰατροῖς ὀνομάζειν ... τόν μέγαν τέ καί μικρόν πυρετον; (cf. Wetstein on Luke, the passage cited)).