International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Inflammation

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Inflammation


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in-fla-mā´shun (דּלּקת, dalleḳeth; ῥῖγος, rhı́gos): Only in , was considered by Jewish writers as “burning fever,” by Septuagint as a form of ague. Both this and typhoid fever are now, and probably were, among the commonest of the diseases of Palestine. See FEVER. In the King James Version has “inflammation” as the rendering of cārebheth, which the Septuagint reads charaktḗr, and for which the proper English equivalent is “scar,” as in the Revised Version (British and American).