πυρετόςpyretós

inflamed, i.e. (by implication) feverish (as noun, fever)

Greek (New Testament) · G4446

Meanings

a fever: Matthew 8:15, Mark 1:31, Luke 4:39, John 4:52, Acts 28:8; π. μέγας, a high fever: Luke 4:38.

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 8:15 But when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left her. Then she got up and prepared a meal for him.
  • Mark 1:31 So he went to her bedside, took her by the hand, and helped her sit up. Then the fever left her, and she prepared a meal for them.
  • Luke 4:38 After leaving the synagogue that day, Jesus went to Simon’s home, where he found Simon’s mother-in-law very sick with a high fever. “Please heal her,” everyone begged.
  • Luke 4:39 Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and prepared a meal for them.
  • John 4:52 He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!”
  • Acts 28:8 As it happened, Publius’s father was ill with fever and dysentery. Paul went in and prayed for him, and laying his hands on him, he healed him.

Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.