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# emerods

«emerods» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **boils or swellings** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

boils or swellings

### part of speech

noun, plural of emerod

### meaning for a pupil

painful lumps or sores that swell on the skin, here as a plague sent on the wicked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/emerods/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say boils or swellings.

### examples

- The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. (Torah DEU.28.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/emerods/#x1)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.134/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «emerods» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/emerods/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.