Quick Definition
πίμπρημι v. I am inflamed, I swell
Strong's Definition
primary preo preh'-o which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to fire, i.e. burn (figuratively and passively, become inflamed with fever)
KJV Usage: be (X should have) swollen
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἐμπί[μ]πρημι · καταπίμπρημι
23.159 · (πίμπραμαι[a]) · Physiological Processes and States · Sickness, Disease, Weakness
to have a fever, fever to be sick with a fever Though in a number of languages one can say ‘a person has a fever,’ in some languages the reverse expression is used, for example, ‘the fever has a person.’ Similarly, instead of saying ‘a person has a disease,’ it is ‘the disease which grabs a person.’ One may often speak of a fever as ‘to become hot’ or ‘to burn’ or ‘to be sick with burning.’
It is also possible to understand πίμπρημι in ACT 28:6 as a process of swelling up (see 23.163).
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πίμπρημι pimprēmi 1x
to set on fire, burn, inflame; in NT pass., to swell from inflamation, Acts 28:6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πίμπρημι
(in cl. prose, rare in the simple form), [in LXX: Nu 5:21, 22, 27 (צָבֶה)*;]
to blow, burn.
Later, to cause to swell; mid., of parts of the body, to become swollen (LXX): Ac 28:6 (cf. ἐμπίπρημι).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πίμπρημι, which in the NT is confined to Lk (Ac 285), is ‘‘ the usual medical word for inflammation.” see Hobart p. 50, where exx. are quoted from Hippocrates, Aretaeus, and Galen, and cf. Field Mores, p. 149. Hence the RV rendering ‘‘swell up’? in Ac Zc. In Sy// 813 (= #1179) εἴ τι[ς ἄλλος] τἀμὰ ex[e, πεπρη μένος ἐξ[αγορεύων, Dittenberger reinarks that the force of πεπρημένος seems to be ‘‘igni quodam intestino, veluti febri, homines scelestos vexari et confici.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πίμπρημι (pimprēmi) — to swell up. πίμπρημι, present and imperfect non-thematic; imperative πίμπρη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle nominative plural πιμπράντες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive πιμπράναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: imperfect ἐν-επίμπρην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐνεπίμπρασαν [Refs 5th c.BC+] —other tenses formed from πρήθω (which see): future πρήσω [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔπρησα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular shortened ἔπρεσε [Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect πέπρηκα (ὑπο-, ἐμ-, κατα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]aorist ἐπρησάμην (ἐν-) [Refs 4th c.AD+]:—passive, future πρησθήσομαι [LXX]; πεπρήσομαι (variant{πρήσομαι} (ἐμ-)) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐπρήσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect (ἐμ-) πέπρησμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but πέπρημαι is the Attic dialect form accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+]—Collat. present ἐμ-πιπράω (see. ἐμπίμπρημι).—In the compound ἐμπίμπρημι (which see; more frequently in Prose) the second μ is sometimes dropped, as ἐμπίπρημ; but returns with the augment, as ἐνεπίμπρασα; compare πίμπλημι:—burn, burn up, γῆν.. πυρὶ πρῆσαι κατάκρας [Refs 8th c.BC+]; without πυρί or πυρός, [Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, πίμπραμαι to be burnt, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πέπρησο burn with fever, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of wounds, to be inflamed, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] (but intransitive in active πίμπρησι δὲ χείλη [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. = πρήθω [Refs], blow up, distend, in passive, [NT+5th c.BC+]:—active, [Refs 4th c.BC+]. (Cf. Russ. prèt' 'sweat', 'stew'.)