שְׁחִיןshᵉchîyn
boil, eruption (2 Kings 20:7; Isaiah 38:21; Deuteronomy 28:35; Job 2:7; Leviticus 13:18)
Pronunciation: shekh-een' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7822
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 9:9 The ashes will spread like fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, causing festering boils to break out on people and animals throughout the land.”
- Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a brick kiln and went and stood before Pharaoh. As Pharaoh watched, Moses threw the soot into the air, and boils broke out on people and animals alike.
- Exodus 9:11 Even the magicians were unable to stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and all the Egyptians.
- Leviticus 13:18 “If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
- Leviticus 13:19 but a white swelling or a reddish white spot develops in its place, that person must go to the priest to be examined.
- Leviticus 13:20 If the priest examines it and finds it to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair in the affected area has turned white, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. The boil has become a serious skin disease.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).