Deuteronomy 28:22

Seven Plagues, four on men, and three on their crops. On the former see Leviticus 26:16, and consult A. Macalister, art. -Medicine" in Hastings" D.B.

consumption Heb. shaḥepheth; from the meaning of the corr. Ar. saḥaf, -to affect with consumption of the lungs," this is usually conceived as phthisis, but Macalister, from the connection here, thinks more likely a wasting fever of the Mediterranean or Malta type. LXX ἀπορία.

fever Heb. ḳaddaḥath, lit. kindling, LXX πυρετὸς; cp. Luke 4:38; John 4:52. -May be malarial fever" (Macalister).

inflammation Heb. dalléḳeth, lit. burning, LXX ῥῖγος. -Possibly … some form of ague," but -perhaps indeed typhoid" (Macalister).

fiery heat Heb. ḥarḥur, lit. burningor parchedness, LXX ἐρεθισμός, -irritation"; -such as erysipelas, only this is not very common in Palestine. It might be one of the exanthemata" (Macalister).

the sword Heb. ḥereb, LXX A F, etc., φόνος, LXX B, etc., omit. But with Sam., Vulg. and R.V. marg. we may read ḥoreb, dryness; either (as in the similarly emended text of Zechariah 11:17, cp. Job 30:30) a witheringof the body, or, in harmony with the following, droughtof the earth.

blasting Heb. shiddaphôn, mostly the effect of the Sirocco (see Jerusalem, i. pp. 12, 20 f.). Hence the LXX ἀνεμοφθορία.

mildew Heb. yeraḳôn, wanness, lividness; LXX ὤχρα.