Bible Dictionary
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SORE, noun
1. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be pained with the slightest pressure.
2. An ulcer; a boil.
3. In Scriptures, grief; affliction. 2 Chronicles 6:28.
SORE, adjective
1. Tender and susceptible of pain from pressure; as, a boil, ulcer or abscess is very sore; a wounded place is sore; inflammation renders a part sore
2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved or vexed; very susceptible of irritation from any thing that crosses the inclination. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
3. Affected with inflammation; as sore eyes.
4. Violent with pain; severe; afflictive; distressing; as a sore disease; sore evil or calamity; a sore night.
5. Severe; violent; as a sore conflict.
6. Criminal; evil.
SORE, adverb
1. With painful violence; intensely; severely; grievously. They hand presseth me sore
2. Greatly; violently; deeply. He was sorely afflicted at the loss of his son. sore sigh'd the knight, who this long sermon heard.
SORE, verb transitive To wound; to make sore
SORE, noun A hawk of the first year.