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Blains

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Occurs only in connection with the sixth plague of Egypt (Exod 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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

blanz (abha`bu`ah: only in Exod 9:9; Exod 9:10): Pustules containing fluid around a boil or inflamed sore. It is an Old English word "bleyen," used sometimes as a synonym for boil. Wyclif (1382) uses the expression "stinkende bleyne" for Job's sores. The Hebrew word is from a root which means that which bubbles up.

See Boil.

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