What does πυρετός (pyretós) mean in the Bible?
πυρετός (pyretós): Acute bodily heat illness causing weakness; used in NT to demonstrate Jesus' healing power over physical disease.
Greek · G4446
πυρετός
Fever
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πυρετός G4446
Pronunciation pyretós
What does πυρετός (pyretós) mean in the Bible?
πυρετός (pyretós): Acute bodily heat illness causing weakness; used in NT to demonstrate Jesus' healing power over physical disease.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4446?
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include fever (6).
Where does πυρετός (pyretós) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 8:15. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (2), Acts (1), John (1), Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It fever 6× Matthew 8:15, Mark 1:31, Luke 4:38, Luke 4:39
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Matthew 8:15 πυρετός to fever Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Mark 1:31 πυρετός to fever Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Luke 4:38 πυρετῷ to fever Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Luke 4:39 πυρετῷ to fever Noun - Dative Masculine Singular John 4:52 πυρετός to fever Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Acts 28:8 πυρετοῖς to fever Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 8:15
Aligned rows 6
Books represented 5
Matthew 1 Mark 1 Luke 2 John 1 Acts 1
Source forms
πυρετός 3x pyretos Matthew 8:15, Mark 1:31, John 4:52
πυρετῷ 2x pyretō Luke 4:38, Luke 4:39
πυρετοῖς 1x pyretois Acts 28:8
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 3x Matthew 8:15, Mark 1:31, John 4:52
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular 2x Luke 4:38, Luke 4:39
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural 1x Acts 28:8
Evidence Summary
Messiah
Greek word. Acute bodily heat illness causing weakness; used in NT to demonstrate Jesus' healing power over physical disease.
Strong's G4446
Lexical occurrences 6 verses Greek text appearances 6 times Word forms 3 forms 6 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 4:38–44 Source Gloss
fever
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Acute bodily heat illness causing weakness; used in NT to demonstrate Jesus' healing power over physical disease.
(πῦρ) [in LXX: Deu.28:22 (קַדַּחַת) * ;] a fever: Mat.8:15, Mrk.1:31, Luk.4:39, Jhn.4:52, Act.28:8; π. μέγας, a high fever: Luk.4:38 (on the technical phrase here, see MM, xxii).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
6 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 8:15 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
πυρετός· puretov
a fever
Read verse Mark 1:31 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
πυρετὸς puretov
a fever
Read verse Luke 4:38 Noun Dative Singular Masculine
πυρετῷ puretw
a fever
Read verse Luke 4:39 Noun Dative Singular Masculine
πυρετῷ, puretw
a fever
Read verse John 4:52 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
πυρετός. puretov
a fever
Read verse Acts 28:8 Noun Dative Plural Masculine
πυρετοῖς puretoiv
a fever
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 6 Case pattern Dative (3) Number pattern Singular (5)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Matt 8:15 · Mark 1:31 · John 4:52 3×
Dative · Singular · Masculine Luke 4:38 · Luke 4:39 2×
Dative · Plural · Masculine Acts 28:8 1×
Selected Scripture Witness
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
New Testament Witnesses
fever
Showing 1 selected witness from 6 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
πυρετός is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Demonstrates Christ’s authority over physical illness. Luke 4:38–44
Canonical Themes
Messiah
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain