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Emerods.


Hemorrhoids or tumours. One of the diseases of the Egyptians, and with which the Philistines were smitten when they had possession of the ark. They returned 'images' of the same with the ark. Deut. 28: 27; 1 Sam. 5: 6-12; 1 Sam. 6: 4-17.