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Apr 23, 2020 · The promises in this psalm are stunning — and mention “pestilence” and “plague” specifically: Verse 3: “He will deliver you from . . . the deadly pestilence.” Verse 7: “A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.”
PESTILENCE. pes'-ti-lens (debher; loimos): Any sudden fatal epidemic is designated by this word, and in its Biblical use it generally indicates that these are divine visitations. The word is most frequently used in the prophetic books, and it occurs 25 times in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, always associated with the sword and famine.
Pestilence. PESTILENCE (דֶּ֫בֶר֒, H1822; λοιμός, G3369, plague). The Heb. word דֶּ֫בֶר֒, H1822, usually tr. “pestilence,” is found forty-nine times in the OT. It occurs in company with such words as famine, blood, wild beasts and death.
Jan 4, 2022 · Pestilence is contagious, virulent, and devastating. For example, the Black Plague in Europe that killed over thirty percent of the population during the late Middle Ages was a pestilence. In the Bible, pestilence is usually a sign of God’s judgment on a nation or people group (Deuteronomy 32:24; 1 Chronicles 21:12; Ezekiel 7:14–15).
Oct 1, 2020 · While God is often credited as the sender of plagues or pestilence – usually to teach some moral lesson – we tend to focus our wrath on human scapegoats. In the 1980s, the HIV-AIDS viral pandemic...
May 17, 2024 · The Catholic Church is traditionally said to have been founded on Pentecost, the 50th day after its founder Jesus Christ ascended to heaven. On that day, Christ's apostle Peter preached to the "multitudes," people assembled in Rome including Parthians, Medes, and Elamites.
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noun. 1.a. a1382–. A fatal epidemic or disease, affecting people or animals; a plague; spec. (frequently in the pestilence) bubonic plague. Also: an instance of this. a1382. Whi shul ȝee dien, þou & þi puple, with swerd & hunger & pestilence [Latin peste]? Bible (Wycliffite, early version) (Bodleian MS. 959) (1969) Jeremiah xxvii. 13. a1400 (c1303)
