Fever (to be sick of)
"feverish heat" (from pur, "fire"), hence, "a fever," occurs in Mat 8:15, Mar 1:31, Joh 4:52, Act 28:8; in Luk 4:38, with megas, "great, a high fever;" Luk 4:39. Luke, as a physician, uses the medical distinction by which the ancients classified fevers into great and little. In the Sept., Deu 28:22.
signifies "to be ill of a fever" (akin to A), Mat 8:14, Mar 1:30.
