λοιμός, λοιμοῦ, ὁ (from Homer down), pestilence; plural a pestilence in divers regions (see λιμός), Mat_24:7 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Luk_21:11; metaphorically, like the Latinpestis (Terence, Adelph. 2, 1, 35; Cicero, Cat. 2, 1 ), a pestilent fellow, pest, plague: Act_24:5 (so Demosthenes, p. 794, 5; Aelian v. h. 14, 11; Pro_21:24; plural, Psa_1:1; 1Ma_15:21; ἄνδρες λοιμοί, 1Ma_10:61, cf. 1Sa_10:27; 1Sa_25:17, etc.).

λοιμός loimos 2x a pestilence, plague, Luk_21:11 ; met. a pest, pestilent fellow, Act_24:5

λοιμός , -οῦ , ὁ , [in LXX for H3887 , H6184 , H1100 , etc.;] pestilence: pl ., Luk_21:11 ; metaph . (as in cl .; LXX : Psa_1:1 , Pro_21:24 , 1Ma_15:21 , al. ), of persons, a pest: Act_24:5 (also as adj. , ἄνδρες λοιμοί , 1Ma_10:61 , al. ).†

λοιμός [page 380] λοιμός , pestilence, plague, as in Luk_21:11 , occurs in P Oxy XIV. 1666 .20 (iii/A.D.) ἤκουσα . . ὅτι παρ᾽ ὑμεῖν λοιμὸς [ἐγ ]ένετο , I heard that there has been plague in your neighbourhood (Edd.). For the metaph. use, as in Act_24:5 , where it is used of a pestilent fellow, (cf. Lat. pestis ) there is ample support in the LXX (e.g. Psa_1:1 , 1Ma_15:21 ). Cf. also Act_13:8 , where for the ordinary reading Ἐλύμας Burkitt ( JTS iv. p. 127 ff.) conjecturally restores ὁ λοιμός . The passage then runs : ἀνθίστατο δὲ αὐτοῖς ὁ λοιμός , ὁ μάγος , οὕτως γὰρ μεθερμηνεύεται τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ , now they were withstood by the pestilent fellow, the sorcerer I mean, for pestilent fellow is the interpretation of his name an interpretation to which Bar Yeshu , changed into ΒΑΡΙΗΣΟΥ ΰ , would readily lend itself.

λοιμός λοιμός, οῦ, "a plague, pestilence", Il. , Hdt. , attic; of the plague at Athens, Thuc. of persons, "a plague, pest", Dem. (Prob. akin to λύμη, Lat. lues.)

λοιμός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX for לוּץ, עָרִיץ, בְּלִיַּעַל, etc. ;] pestilence: pl., Luk.21:11; metaphorically (as in cl.; LXX: Psa.1:1, Pro.21:24, 1Ma.15:21, al.), of persons, a pest: Act.24:5 (also as adj., ἄνδρες λοιμοί, 1Ma.10:61, al.).† (AS)