Canker

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Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]

2 Timothy 2:17 James 5:3

Holman Bible Dictionary [2]

2 Timothy 2:17 James 5:3 2 Timothy 2:17 James 5:3Rust

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [3]

See Gangrene.

King James Dictionary [4]

CANKER, n.

1. A disease incident to trees, which causes the bark to rot and fall.

2. A popular name of certain small eroding ulcers in the mouth, particularly of children. They are generally covered with a whitish slough.

3. A virulent, corroding ulcer or any thing that corrodes, corrupts or destroys.

Sacrilege may prove an eating canker.

And their word will eat as doth a canker. Tim. 2.

4. An eating, corroding, virulent humor corrosion.

5. A kind of rose, the dog rose.

6. In farriery, a running thrush of the worst kind a disease in horses feet, discharging a fetid matter from the cleft in the middle of the frog.

CANKER, To grow corrupt to decay, or waste away by means of any noxious cause to grow rusty, or to be oxydized, as a metal.

Morrish Bible Dictionary [5]

γάγγραινα.The word of those who err from the truth eats like a 'gangrene' which consumes the flesh. Such teaching saps the vitals of Christianity. 2 Timothy 2:17 .

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [6]

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [7]

2 Timothy 2:17 (b) This describes the damaging, deadening, harmful results of the words spoken by these two men. This meaning of the word "canker" is "gangrene."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [8]

kaṇ´kẽr . See Gangrene .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [9]

( γάγγραινα ) , a gangrene ( 2 Timothy 2:17), nortification; a disease which spreads by degrees over the whole body. To such a putrid state of the system the apostle compares the corrupt doctrines of Hymenaeus and Philetus.

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