Definition

a stroke; by implication, a wound; figuratively, a calamity

Etymology

from G4141 (πλήσσω);

Word family

• πλήσσω plḗssō

How the KJV renders it

• plague
• stripe
• wound(-ed)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.