Derived from pur, fire . Our word fever comes through the German feuer. This translation is correct. Matthew may be presumed to have understood the sense of the passage he was citing from Isaiah, and he could have used no word more inadequate to express his meaning, if that meaning had been that Christ took away infirmities . Only here and in the parallel, Luke ix.
Nests is too limited.
The word, derived from skhnh, a tent, has the more general meaning of shelter or habitation . In classical Greek it is used of an encampment. The nest is not to the bird what the hole is to the fox , a permanent dwelling-place, since the bird frequents the nest only during incubation. The Rev. retains nests , but puts lodging- places in the margin. Used of an earthquake .