Definition

to fire, i.e. burn (figuratively and passively, become inflamed with fever)

Etymology

a reduplicated and prolonged form of a primary ; which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses);

Where the KJV renders it

• be (X should have) swollen

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.