Text:EBD:Blains
Revision as of 00:00, 15 January 2001 by Unknown user (talk)
Occurs only in connection with the sixth plague of Egypt (Ex. 9:9, 10). In Deut. 28:27, 35, it is called "the botch of Egypt." It seems to have been the fearful disease of black leprosy, a kind of elephantiasis, producing burning ulcers.
Return to Easton's Bible Dictionary