πληγή

Luke 10:30 πληγὰς wounds

Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Luke 12:48 πληγῶν of stripes

But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.

Here: 'Of blows': strokes of a rod or whip, the standard way slaves and convicted offenders were punished.

Acts 16:23 πληγὰς blows

And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.

Here: The blows themselves and the wounds they left. Here the blows came from the lictors' rods ordered in v. 22, not from a whip.

Acts 16:33 πληγῶν, wounds,

At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.

2 Corinthians 6:5 πληγαῖς, beatings,

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

Here: Physical blows, especially floggings with a whip or rods. The plural points to repeated beatings Paul actually received (compare 11:23–25).

2 Corinthians 11:23 πληγαῖς beatings

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Here: Floggings and beatings, together with the wounds and welts they left. Verses 24–25 spell them out: synagogue lashes and Roman rods.

Revelation 9:18 πληγῶν plagues

A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.

Here: A "strike" or "blow" dealt out as judgment. This is the word the Greek Old Testament uses for the plagues on Egypt. It does not mean an epidemic disease.

Revelation 9:20 πληγαῖς plagues

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

Here: Literally 'blows' or 'strikes'. It is the word used in the Greek Old Testament for the Egyptian plagues, so it casts the trumpets as a new Exodus. Here it means the fire, smoke and sulfur of 9:18.

Revelation 11:6 πληγῇ plague

These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

Here: A blow or stroke, here a disaster sent by God. It is the Greek Old Testament word for the 'plagues' of Egypt (Exod 11:1). It is not mainly a word for an epidemic.

Revelation 13:3 πληγὴ wound

One of the heads of the beast appeared to have been mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.

Here: A blow or stroke, and the wound it leaves. Elsewhere in Revelation this same word means the "plagues" God sends (9:20; 15:1; 16:9). In 13:14 it is "the blow of the sword".

Revelation 13:12 πληγὴ wound

And this beast exercised all the authority of the first beast and caused the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.

Revelation 13:14 πληγὴν wound

Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.

Here: A blow struck, and the wound it leaves. In 13:3 it is called a "death-stroke". Elsewhere Revelation uses the same word for God's plagues.

Revelation 15:1 πληγὰς plagues

Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.

Here: Blows struck by God. The word in the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint) for the strikes against Egypt and for the covenant punishments of Leviticus 26. It does not mean 'epidemic'.

Revelation 15:6 πληγὰς plagues

And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.

Here: Strokes dealt out from God, not merely outbreaks of disease. It echoes the 'plagues' (blows) on Egypt, especially since the Song of Moses was just sung (15:3).

Revelation 15:8 πληγαὶ plagues

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Here: Blows struck by God. This is the word the Greek Old Testament uses for the plagues on Egypt, and the bowl judgments of chapter 16 deliberately repeat them (sores, water to blood, darkness, frogs, hail).

Revelation 16:9 πληγὰς plagues

And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

Here: Literally 'blows' or 'strikes'. The Greek Old Testament uses it for the plagues on Egypt, and that is the background picked up here (see Rev 15:1, 'seven plagues, the last').

Revelation 16:21 πληγῆς πληγὴ plague

And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.

Here: A 'blow' or 'stroke', something that hits. The hail is described as God striking a blow, the Exodus sense of 'plague', not a disease.

Revelation 18:4 πληγῶν plagues

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

Here: God's judgment blows, in the pattern of the Exodus plagues and the bowl judgments (Rev 15–16). Verse 8 names them: death, mourning, famine and fire.

Revelation 18:8 πληγαὶ plagues

Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Here: Literally 'strikes' or 'blows', meaning calamities God sends on her, in the style of the Exodus plagues and the bowl judgments. The next words spell out what they are.

Revelation 21:9 πληγῶν plagues

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Here: Literally 'blows' or 'strikes'. These are the hammer-blows of judgment modeled on the plagues of Egypt in Exodus, not just diseases.

Revelation 22:18 πληγὰς plagues

I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.

Here: Literally 'blows' or 'strikes.' Here it means the God-sent calamities already described in the book (trumpets, the two witnesses, the seven bowls), which echo the plagues of Egypt.