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What is a Plague?
        PLAGUE
        , an eminently contagious and destructive disease, a virulent typhus accompanied by loathsome eruptions, prevalent in the East from the earliest ages, and still ravaging Egypt even in modern times. Ex 11:1. Besides in this its specific sense, the sacred writers also employ the word to express any terrific and desolating disease, Lev 13:3; 1 Kgs 8:37, or any severe calamity or scourge, Mark 5:29, Num 32:34; Luke 7:21, or as a general term for the judgment of God. Ex 9:14. The judgments of God on Pharaoh are called plagues. In the A.V. "plague" is the translation of seven words.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'plague' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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