puretos denotes a bodily illness portrayed as holding someone and then leaving when healing occurs.

The term consistently denotes a bodily illness: it is said to hold Simon's mother-in-law, to leave afflicted persons after healing, and to occur alongside dysentery in the illness of Publius's father.

1. Bodily illness that afflicts and departs · dominant

   In Luke 4:38 the dative singular occurs in the clause describing Simon's mother-in-law as held by a great illness, and Luke 4:39 reports that it left her after being rebuked. The nominative singular is likewise the condition that leaves the woman in Matthew 8:15 and Mark 1:31, and the APB renders John 4:52 with the report that “the fever left him.” In Acts 28:8 the dative plural occurs with dysentery in the description of Publius's father lying sick.

   Luke 4:38Luke 4:39Matthew 8:15Mark 1:31John 4:52Acts 28:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB presents the term as “fever,” including clauses in which it “left” an afflicted person. In Acts 28:8 it appears in the broader description “sick with fever and dysentery”.