Lexical 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. |