Bible Dictionary
INFLAMMATION
Inflammation refers chiefly to a burning fever or similar illness in Deuteronomy 28:22. In Leviticus 13:28, the term is better understood as a scar.
Definition
Inflammation refers chiefly to a burning fever or similar illness. In another biblical occurrence, the word rendered “inflammation” is more properly understood as a scar.
Biblical Usage
Deuteronomy 28:22 uses the term for a burning fever; Jewish writers treated it as such, while the Septuagint understood it as a form of ague. In Leviticus 13:28 the Revised Version renders the related term “scar.”
Historical Background
Burning fever and typhoid fever are described as common diseases of Palestine in the supplied material.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>in-fla-ma'-shun (dalleqeth; rhigos): Only in De 28:22, was considered by Jewish writers as "burning fever," by Septuagint as a form of ague. Both this and typhoid fever are now, and probably were, among the commonest of the diseases of Palestine. See FEVER. In Le 13:28 the King James Version has "inflammation" as the rendering of tsarebheth, which Septuagint reads charakter, and for which the proper English equivalent is "scar," as in the Revised Version (British and American).</p>