Dropsy
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Easton's 1897
Mentioned only in Luke 14:2. The man afflicted with it was cured by Christ on the Sabbath.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain
ISBE 1915
From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915). Where it reports or adopts critical theories, those are the views of its writers or the scholars they cite; Gospel Companion holds the historic Christian view of Scripture.
drop'-si (hudropikos, "a man afflicted with hudrops or dropsy"): Both forms of this disease occur in Palestine, that in which the limbs and body are distended with water called anasarca, depending generally on cardiac or renal disease, and the form confined to the abdomen, usually the result of liver infection. The latter is the commoner, as liver disease is a frequent result of recurrent attacks of malarial fever. The man was evidently able to move about, as he had entered into the Pharisee's house (Lu 14:2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain
In Scripture
1 reference found in the entries above · verse links open the World English Bible
Sources
- Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Public domain
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · Public domain