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bloody flux

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(flow). Violent dysentery (Acts 28:8⁸And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. (Acts 28:8)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Dysentery, one of the worst diseases in the East, always attended with fever (Acts 28:8⁸And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. (Acts 28:8)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:

Number:

1420 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Greek:

δυσεντέρια

Transliteration:

dusenteria

Phonic:

doos-en-ter-ee’-ah

Meaning:

from 1418 and a comparative of 1787 (meaning a bowel); a "dysentery"

KJV Usage:

bloody flux