The name given in Deuteronomy 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Exodus 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil" (q.v.).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

2. (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

3. (n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

4. (n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.

5. (n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

6. (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.