King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1420
Transliteration: dysenteria
Phonetic Spelling: (doos-en-ter-ee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: dysentery
Meaning: dysentery
δυσεντερίᾳ, δυσεντεριας, ἡ (ἔντερον, intestine), dysentery (Latintormina intestinorum, bowel-complaint): Acts 28:8 R G; see the following word. (Hippocrates and medical writers; Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, others.)
Word Summary
dysenteria: dysentery
Original Word: δυσεντερίαTransliteration: dysenteria
Phonetic Spelling: (doos-en-ter-ee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: dysentery
Meaning: dysentery
Strong's Concordance
dysenteryFrom dus- and a comparative of entos (meaning a bowel); a "dysentery" -- bloody flux.
see GREEK dus-
see GREEK entos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1420: δυσεντερίᾳδυσεντερίᾳ, δυσεντεριας, ἡ (ἔντερον, intestine), dysentery (Latintormina intestinorum, bowel-complaint): Acts 28:8 R G; see the following word. (Hippocrates and medical writers; Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, others.)
STRONGS NT 1420: δυσεντέριονδυσεντέριον, δυσεντεριου, τό, a later form for δυσεντερίᾳ, which see: Acts 28:8 LT Tr WH. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 518.