Meaning
Boil (rendered "botch" in Deut 28:27, 35), an aggravated ulcer, as in the case of Hezekiah (2Kings 20:7; Isa 38:21) or of the Egyptians (Ex 9:9, 10, 11; Deut 28:27, 35). It designates the disease of Job (2:7), which was probably the black leprosy.