UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἐμπί[μ]πρημι · καταπίμπρημι

Sense 1: to have a fever, fever

Semantic entry: 23.159

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Sickness, Disease, Weakness

Definition: to be sick with a fever

Notes: Though in a number of languages one can say ‘a person has a fever,’ in some languages the reverse expression is used, for example, ‘the fever has a person.’ Similarly, instead of saying ‘a person has a disease,’ it is ‘the disease which grabs a person.’ One may often speak of a fever as ‘to become hot’ or ‘to burn’ or ‘to be sick with burning.’|It is also possible to understand πίμπρημι in OET ACT 28:6 as a process of swelling up (see 23.163: πίμπρημι).

Forms: πίμπραμαι[a]

Show passage in OET: ACT 28:6

OET-RV ACT 28:6

6 The locals were waiting for his arm to swell up or for him to fall down dead, but after a while when nothing happened they changed their minds and decided that instead, he must be a god.

OET-LV ACT 28:6

6 But they were _expecting him to _be _going to _be _being _swelled _up, or to _be _falling _down suddenly dead.
But over much time, them waiting and observing nothing amiss becoming to him, having _changed _their _minds they _were _saying him to _be a_god.

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Sense 2: to swell up

Semantic entry: 23.163