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The common gathering on the flesh, attended with inflammation, which the Hebrew word shechin implies. The boils were doubtless malignant when sent as a plague in Egypt, Ex. 9: 9-11; and they were severe in the case of Job when smitten by Satan. Job 2: 7. Hezekiah's boil was apparently of an aggravated type, though a lump of figs was blessed to his recovery. 2 Kings 20: 7; Isa. 38: 21. See
also Lev. 13: 18-23.