English

Alternative forms

• emeroid

Noun

emerod ‎(plural emerods)

1. A haemorrhoid; an affliction mentioned in the Bible usually interpreted as a haemorrhoid.
   • 1816, The Holy Bible ... with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, 1 Samuel, v, 6,

     But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod, and the coasts thereof.

   • 1967, Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Moses Hadas (translator), Fables of a Jewish Aesop, [1557, Mishle Shualim, (known as Fox Fables)], 2001, page 83,

     They hated him sore and banished him from their world, saying: "Without the camp shall be thy resting place, and thou shalt turn and cover thine excrements. The plague of emerods is in thee, and it seals thy passages; our doom for thee is death."

Usage notes

Maintained in occasional referential usage due to its use in the 1611 King James Bible (in Deuteronomy and 1 Samuel).