Bible Vocabulary

Word Forms

These forms come from “pestilence” and change to fit the sentence.

  • pestilencebase form
  • pestilencesplural

pestilence

noun /ˈpɛstələn(t)s/

WEB 44 appearances

KJV 49 appearances

Pestilence means a terrible disease that spreads fast and kills many people.

Biblical Usage

In the Bible, God sometimes sends pestilence to punish people when they disobey Him. People prayed to God to save them from these bad sicknesses.

WEB Representative Scriptures

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Numbers 14:12 (WEB)
The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 28:21 (WEB)
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah 21:6 (WEB)

KJV Representative Scriptures

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Numbers 14:12 (KJV)
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 78:50 (KJV)
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah 21:6 (KJV)