אֲבַעְבֻּעָה
avabua · blisters
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H76 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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avabua (אֲבַעְבֻּעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blisters”.
That rise on the skin and burst. It occurs only in Exodus 9:9-10.
How to say it
a·va·bu·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Swellings full of fluid that burst on the skin.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 9:9
It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become on people and on animals boils breaking out in blisters throughout all the land of Egypt.”
- Exodus 9:10
So they took the soot of the kiln and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils with blisters breaking out on people and on animals.