Lexical Summary helkoō: to wound, to ulcerate, pass. to suffer from sores Original Word: ἑλκόωTransliteration: helkoō Phonetic Spelling: (hel-ko'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to wound, to ulcerate, pass. to suffer from sores Meaning: to wound, to ulcerate, to suffer from sores Strong's Concordance full of sores or ulcersFrom helkos; to cause to ulcerate, i.e. (passively) be ulcerous -- full of sores. see GREEK helkos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1669: ἑλκόωἑλκόω, ἕλκω: to make sore, cause to ulcerate (Hippocrates and medical writers); passive to be ulcerated; perfect participle passive ἡλκωμένος (L T Tr WH εἱλκωμένος (WHs Appendix, p. 161; Winers Grammar, § 12, 8; Buttmann, 34 (30))), full of sores: Luke 16:20 (Xenophon, de re. eq. 1, 4; 5, 1). |
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