H7822 H7822
A boil or inflamed skin ulcer; used of plague sores, leprous eruptions, and painful afflictions on human or animal flesh.
Denotes a painful, inflamed skin lesion — a boil or ulcer that erupts on the surface of the body. In Exodus 9:9-11 it appears as one of the Egyptian plagues, breaking out on both humans and animals. Leviticus 13:18-23 treats it as a potentially leprous condition requiring priestly examination. The 'boil of Egypt' (Deut 28:27) becomes a covenant-curse, while Job's tormenting sores (Job 2:7) and Hezekiah's life-threatening boil (2 Kgs 20:7; Isa 38:21) show it as a mark of severe physical affliction. Spanish 'úlcera' and French 'boils' both capture the medical specificity.
Senses
1. boil, skin ulcer — A boil, skin ulcer, or inflamed sore erupting on the body's surface. Covers the sixth Egyptian plague on people and livestock (Exod 9:9-11), leprous skin conditions under priestly inspection (Lev 13:18-23), the dreaded 'boil of Egypt' as covenant curse (Deut 28:27, 35), Hezekiah's near-fatal boil healed with a fig poultice (2 Kgs 20:7), and Job's agonizing full-body sores (Job 2:7). Multilingual glosses — Spanish 'úlcera,' German 'Geschwüre' — consistently point to a medical skin eruption rather than a wound from external trauma. 13×
AR["الدَّمَامِلُ", "الدَّمَامِلِ", "الدُّمَّلَةِ", "الدُّمَّلِ", "بِ-قُرُوحٍ", "بِ-قُرُوحِ", "بِقُروحٍ", "دَمَامِلَ", "دَمَامِلُ", "دُمَّلٌ", "فِي-الدُّمَّلِ"]·ben["ফোঁড়ায়", "ফোড়া", "ফোড়াতে", "ফোড়ায়", "ফোড়ার", "ভয়ঙ্কর-ঘা", "মারাত্মক-ফোঁড়ায়", "মিশরের-ফোঁড়ায়", "সেই-ফোড়ায়", "সেই-ফোড়ার"]·DE["Geschwuere", "[בשחין]", "[השחין]", "boil", "der-Geschwuere", "der-boil", "in-der-boil", "mit-boils", "mit-boils-von"]·EN["boil", "boils", "in-the-boil", "the-boil", "the-boils", "with-boils", "with-boils-of"]·FR["[השחין]", "avec-boils", "avec-boils-de", "dans-le-ulcère", "dans-בשחין", "le-boil", "le-ulcère", "le-ulcères", "ulcère", "ulcères"]·heb["ב-ה-בשחין", "ב-שחין", "ה-שחין", "ל-שחין", "שחין"]·HI["उसकी", "फोड़ा", "फोड़े", "फोड़े-करके", "फोड़े-से", "फोड़ों-के", "वह", "ह-फोड़े-पर"]·ID["bisul", "bisul-itu", "dengan-barah", "dengan-bisul", "pada-bisul"]·IT["[השחין]", "boil", "con-boils", "con-boils-di", "il-boil", "il-bolli", "il-ulcere", "in-con-boils", "in-il-boil", "ulcere"]·jav["bisul", "dados-bisul", "ing-bisul", "mawi-bisul", "nganggo-wudun", "wudun"]·KO["(전)-종기로", "그-종기-의", "그-종기가", "그-종기에", "그-종기의", "되어", "에-종기", "종기", "종기-에서"]·PT["a-ferida", "a-úlcera", "com-úlcera", "com-úlcera-de", "ferida", "ferida-de", "na-úlcera", "úlcera"]·RU["-нарыв", "в-язве", "нарывами", "нарывов", "нарывом", "нарывы", "язва", "язвой", "язву", "язвы"]·ES["con-sarna", "con-úlcera", "con-úlcera-de", "divieso", "el-divieso", "el-tumor", "en-el-divieso", "la-llaga", "la-úlcera", "úlcera"]·SW["jipu", "katika-jipu", "kuwa-majipu", "kwa-jipu", "kwa-majipu", "majipu"]·TR["cibanin", "çıban", "çıbanda", "çıbanlarla", "çıbanın", "çıbanın-"]·urd["دردناک-پھوڑوں-سے", "میں-پھوڑے", "پھوڑا", "پھوڑوں-سے", "پھوڑوں-کے", "پھوڑے", "پھوڑے-سے", "پھوڑے-میں", "پھوڑے-کا", "پھوڑے-کی"]
Exod 9:9, Exod 9:10, Exod 9:11, Exod 9:11, Lev 13:18, Lev 13:19, Lev 13:20, Lev 13:23, Deut 28:27, Deut 28:35, 2 Kgs 20:7, Job 2:7 (+1 more)
Related Senses
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שְׁחִין n.m. boil, coll. eruption;—on man 2 K 20:7 = Is 38:21, שׁ׳ רָ֑ע Dt 28:35; Jb 2:7; possibly leprous Lv 13:18, 19, 20, צָרֶ֫בֶת הַשּׁ׳ 13:23 (v. צ׳; all P), in Egypt, on man and beast Ex 9:9, 10, 11(×2) (all P), cstr. שְׁחִין מִצְרַיִם Dt 28:27.