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Beggar (ptōchos). Original meaning of this old word. See note on Mat 5:3. The name Lazarus is from Eleazaros, “God a help,” and was a common one.
Lazar in English means one afflicted with a pestilential disease.
Was laid (ebeblēto). Past perfect passive of the common verb ballō. He had been flung there and was still there, “as if contemptuous roughness is implied” (Plummer).
At his gate (pros ton pulōna autou). Right in front of the large portico or gateway, not necessarily a part of the grand house, porch in Mat 26:71.
Full of sores (heilkōmenos). Perfect passive participle of helkoō, to make sore, to ulcerate, from helkos, ulcer (Latin ulcus). See use of helkos in Luk 16:21. Common in Hippocrates and other medical writers. Here only in the N.T.