Hebrews deber, "destruction," a "great mortality", the fifth plague that fell upon the Egyptians (Exodus 9:3). It was some distemper that resulted in the sudden and widespread death of the cattle. It was confined to the cattle of the Egyptians that were in the field (9:6). 1. (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.

2. (a.) Having, or afflicted with, murrain.

MURRAIN

mur'-in, mur'-en, mur'-an (debher): This name is given to a fatal cattle-disease, which was the fifth of the plagues of Egypt (Exodus 9:3), and which affected not only the flocks and herds, but also the camels, horses and asses. The record of its onset immediately after the plague of flies makes it probable that it was an epizootic, whose germs were carried by these insects as those of rinderpest or splenic fever may be. Cattle plagues have in recent years been very destructive in Egypt; many writers have given descriptions of the great devastation wrought by the outbreak in 1842. In this case Wittmann noted that contact with the putrid carcasses caused severe boils, a condition also recorded in Exodus as following the murrain. The very extensive spread of rinderpest within the last few years in many districts of Egypt has not yet been completely stamped out, even in spite of the use of antitoxic serum and the most rigid isolation. The word "murrain" is probably a variant of the Old French morine. It is used as an imprecation by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan writers, and is still applied by herdsmen to several forms of epidemic cattle sickness. Among early writers it was used as well for fatal plagues affecting men; thus, Lydgate (1494) speaks of the people "slain by that moreyne."nt that at least two witnesses must concur in any capital question (Numbers 35:19-30 Deuteronomy 17:6-12; Deuteronomy 19:12, 17). Under the monarchy the duty of executing justice on a murderer seems to have been assumed to some extent by the sovereign, who also had power to grant pardon (2 Samuel 13:39; 2 Samuel 14:7, 11 1 Kings 2:34).

Alexander Macalister

1698. deber -- pestilence
... murrain, pestilence, plague. From dabar (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence --
murrain, pestilence, plague. see HEBREW dabar. 1697, 1698. deber. 1699 ...
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The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New
... servants, and all thy people, that thou mayest know that there is none like me in
all the earth.' The cattle and sheep shall be destroyed with murrain; man and ...
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Full Redemption
... deals deceitfully, again refuses, again grows angry, and waxes proud; and God smites
the land with lice, with flies, with a very grievous murrain, with all ...
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Separating the Precious from the Vile
... The Lord sent hail and a murrain upon all the cattle of the Egyptians; but the cattle
of the children of Israel were spared, and on their fields fell no ...
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Exodus
... of Egypt and his unhappy land: the water of the Nile is turned into blood (vii.),
there are plagues of frogs, gnats, gadflies (viii.), murrain, boils, hail (ix ...
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The Murket's Sacrifice
... "Curse that smooth villain Har-hat!" he cried in a tempest of wrath. "A murrain
upon his greedy, crafty lust! The gods blast him in his knavery! ...
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At the Well
... the race, had become emaciation; there was the studious unkemptness of mourning
upon them, and they, who had ridden once, before the plagues of murrain and hail ...
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Whether the Aforesaid Powers are More Infected than the Others?
... to be infectious, which are of such a nature as to be transmitted from one subject
to another: hence contagious diseases, such as leprosy and murrain and the ...
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Treatise on the Priesthood. Book ii.
... He indeed who has lost sheep, either through the ravages of wolves, or the attacks
of robbers, or through murrain, or any other disaster befalling them, might ...
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Jesus Heals Two Gergesene Demoniacs.
... to the swine was done by the demons, and the owners had no more right to complain
than they would have had if the herd had been carried off by murrain, by flood ...
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Strong Faith in a Faithful God
... Know ye not that God can make the gnat and the fly to be a greater trouble
to Egypt than the murrain, the thunder, or the storm? ...
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Murrain (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. 2. (a.) Having, or afflicted
with, murrain. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MURRAIN. ...
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Plagues (28 Occurrences)
... INTRODUCTION I. NATURAL PHENOMENA 1. Water Turned to Blood 2. The Plague of Frogs
3. The Plague of Lice 4. The Plague of Flies 5. The Plague of Murrain 6. The ...
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Murmurings (8 Occurrences)

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Oxen (176 Occurrences)
... thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels,
upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. ...
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Muscle (1 Occurrence)

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Plague (142 Occurrences)
... dog-fly), Exodus 8:21-24. (5.) The murrain (Exodus 9:1-7), or epidemic pestilence
which carried off vast numbers of cattle in the field. ...
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Pestilence (57 Occurrences)
... pestilence is used of any visitation and is not the name of any special disease;
debher is applied to diseases of cattle and is translated "murrain." In the ...
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Boil (29 Occurrences)
... Egypt came without warning immediately after the insect plagues of kinnim (sandflies)
and that of `arobh or flies, and followed the epizootic murrain, which is ...
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Asses (68 Occurrences)
... thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels,
upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. ...
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Egypt (596 Occurrences)
... INTRODUCTION I. NATURAL PHENOMENA 1. Water Turned to Blood 2. The Plague of Frogs
3. The Plague of Lice 4. The Plague of Flies 5. The Plague of Murrain 6. The ...
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