pyretos · fever

What it means

pyretos (πυρετός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “fever”.

How to say it

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

1. High heat of the body that comes with an illness.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fever ×5
• fevers ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Acts×1

• Matthew 8:15

  And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and began to serve him.

• Mark 1:31

  And he came and raised her up, taking her by the hand; and the fever left her, and she began serving them.

• Luke 4:38

  And rising to go from the synagogue, he went into Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was gripped by a high fever, and they asked him about her.

• Luke 4:39

  And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she got up and began serving them.

• John 4:52

  So he asked them the hour when he began to get better. So they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

• Acts 28:8

  And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed, afflicted with fevers and dysentery; Paul went in to him and, praying, laid his hands on him and healed him.