Word Forms
These forms come from “plague” and change to fit the sentence.
- plaguebase form
- plaguedpast and past participle
- plaguesplural, third-person singular present
- plaguingpresent participle
plague
WEB 119 appearances
KJV 128 appearances
A plague is a terrible disease or trouble that brings bad suffering to many people.
Biblical Usage
In the Bible, God sometimes sends a plague to punish people who do wrong. The word is also used to describe bad skin diseases or terrible troubles that spread quickly.
WEB Representative Scriptures
The LORD said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.Exodus 11:1 (WEB)
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.Numbers 11:33 (WEB)
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague was exceedingly severe.Revelation 16:21 (WEB)
KJV Representative Scriptures
And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.Leviticus 13:22 (KJV)
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD .Numbers 14:37 (KJV)
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:2 Chronicles 21:14 (KJV)