Definition

to be on fire, i.e. (specially), to have a fever

Etymology

from G4443 (πυρά);

Word family

• πυρά pyrá

How the KJV renders it

• be sick of a fever

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.