Choler
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
Choler is used in Sir 31:20; Sir 37:30 in the sense of a disease, ‘perhaps cholera, diarrhÅ“a’ Oxf. Eng. Dict . (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘colic’); and in Daniel 8:7; Daniel 11:11 in the sense of bitter anger. Both meanings are old, and belonged indeed to the Lat. cholera as early as the 3rd and 4th centuries.
King James Dictionary [2]
CHOLER, n.
1. The bile. By the superabundance of this fluid, anger was formerly supposed to be produced or perhaps the opinion was that the bile caused the inflamed appearance of the face in anger. Hence, 2. Anger wrath irritation of the passions.
Cholera Morbus, a sudden evacuation of bile, both upwards and downwards.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (n.) The bile; - formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
(2): (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
kol´ẽr : Lit. "bile," is used in the sense of a disease (χολέρα , choléra ) (Sirach 31:20; 37:30), and in the sense of bitter anger (מרר , mārar ) ( Daniel 8:7; Daniel 11:11 English Versions of the Bible, the American Standard Revised Version "anger").
