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Emerods

Topics · Updated 2026-05-07

This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Hemorrhoids.

Emerods is the older English word, used in the King James Version, for hemorrhoids — the painful swellings or tumors with which the Philistines were afflicted after capturing the ark of the covenant. The plague drove them to return the ark with a guilt offering of golden images.

Click here to read the full topic on this subject: Hemorrhoids