Bible Dictionary
Boil
A boil was an aggravated ulcer or painful skin eruption. Severe boils are recorded among the plagues of Egypt, in the judgments of Deuteronomy, and in Job’s affliction.
Biblical Usage
Boils appear in the sixth plague upon Egypt, among the judgments threatened in Deuteronomy, and in Job’s affliction. Job’s disease has been understood as black leprosy, though the supplied material presents this as probable rather than certain.
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