James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Flux

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Flux


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FLUX.—The expression ‘a bloody flux’ (1611 ‘bloody-flixe’) is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for Gr. dysenterion (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘dysentery’). This trans. is first found in Wyclif, who offers the alternative ‘dissenterie, or flix.’ See Medicine.