Strong G1668ἕλκος
sore
- Transliteration
- helkos
- Pronunciation
- hel'-kos
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
Probably from G1670; an ulcer (as if drawn together): - sore.
Detailed definition
ἑλκος, -εος (-ους), τό
[in LXX: Exo.9:9-11, Lev.13:18-27, 4Ki.20:7, Job.2:7 (שְׁחִין);]
1. a wound (Hom.).
2. a sore, an ulcer (Thuc., al.): Luk.16:21, Rev.16:2, 11.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Exo.9:9-11, Lev.13:18-27, 4Ki.20:7, Job.2:7 (שְׁחִין);]
1. a wound (Hom.).
2. a sore, an ulcer (Thuc., al.): Luk.16:21, Rev.16:2, 11.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1668 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- sore3
First verses
- Luke 16:21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
- Revelation 16:2And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
- Revelation 16:11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἕλκος, εος, τό,
wound, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.190, +others (never in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.91, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1232 (_plural_), etc.)]
2 festering wound, sore, ulcer, ἕ. ὕδρου the festering bite of a serpent, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.723)]; plague-ulcer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 5.1, etc. (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.232 defines ἕ. as ἡ τῆς συνεχείας λύσις ἐν σαρκώδει μορίῳ)], and both 1.1 and 1.2 are treated in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Ulc.”)]; ἕ. is applied to amputations in [Refs (“Art.” 68.))]
II metaphorically, wound, loss, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.17, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 652, +others; ἕ. δήμιον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 640)]; ὑποκάρδιον ἕ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.15; γίγνεται ἕ. ἐφ᾽ ἕλκει 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 1063.6. (Orig. Ελκος)], cf. Latin ulcus, Sanskritárśas (n.) 'haemorrhoid': ἕ- by influence of ἕλκω.)
wound, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.190, +others (never in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.91, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1232 (_plural_), etc.)]
2 festering wound, sore, ulcer, ἕ. ὕδρου the festering bite of a serpent, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.723)]; plague-ulcer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 5.1, etc. (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.232 defines ἕ. as ἡ τῆς συνεχείας λύσις ἐν σαρκώδει μορίῳ)], and both 1.1 and 1.2 are treated in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Ulc.”)]; ἕ. is applied to amputations in [Refs (“Art.” 68.))]
II metaphorically, wound, loss, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.17, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 652, +others; ἕ. δήμιον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 640)]; ὑποκάρδιον ἕ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.15; γίγνεται ἕ. ἐφ᾽ ἕλκει 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 1063.6. (Orig. Ελκος)], cf. Latin ulcus, Sanskritárśas (n.) 'haemorrhoid': ἕ- by influence of ἕλκω.)