noun · masculine
puretos
Strong’sG4446
a fever
stem puret-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πυρετός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< πῦρ), [in LXX: De 28:22 (קדַּחַת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4446 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpoo-ret-os'
inflamed, i.e. (by implication) feverish (as noun, fever)
Fromfrom G4445;
King Jamesfever.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(πῦρ) burning heat, fiery heat, φέρει πυρετὸν δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσιν (i.e. Sirius) Refs 8th c.BC+
II fever, Refs 5th c.BC+; θνήσκειν ἐκ π. Refs; π. ἀμφημερινοί, τριταῖοι, τεταρταῖοι, quotidian, tertian, quartan fevers, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | puretos3×πυρετός | puretois |
| object accusative | pureton | puretoin |
| direct address vocative | puretor | puretoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | puretou | puretoiu |
| to, for dative | pureto2×πυρετῷ | puretoi1×πυρετοῖς |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pureto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
puretos“fever”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 8:15… cheirau autau, kai afiēkata autan tos puretos, kai egerita kai diakonate auto.… He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up …
Mark 1:31… tau cheirau; kai afiēkata autan tos puretos, kai diakonate autoi.… hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began to …
John 4:52… Echthes hōran hebdoman afiēkata auton tos puretos.… recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh …
pureto“fever”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 4:38… pentheras de tou Simōnou ate sunechorōntas pureto mego, kai erōtala auton peri autau.… mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on …
Luke 4:39kai epistēarantos epanō autau epitimata to pureto, kai afiēkata autan; parachrēma de anastēarantas …… stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she …
puretoi“fever”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 28:8geneta de ton patron tou Popliou puretoi kai dusenterie sunechorōnton katakeiorō, pros hon …… was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to …