Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. p.) of Swell. 2. (p. p) of Swell. 3. (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia SWOLLEN swol'-'-n (pimprasthai, only in Acts 28:6): The Melitans expected to see Paul poisoned by the viper's bite. the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version translate it "swollen," but the word is used by certain medical writers in the sense of inflammation; see Nicander, Theriaca, 306; Hesiod, Theogonia, 856, expressing thereby the burning up by a thunderbolt. Swelling accompanies the local lesion of snake-bite and often large purpuric exudation of blood, as well as paralysis, especially of the lower limbs.

Multi-Version Concordance Swollen (7 Occurrences) Matthew 7:25 and the heavy rain falls, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and beat against the house; yet it does not fall, for its foundation is on rock. (WEY) Matthew 7:27 The heavy rain descends, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and burst upon the house, and it falls; and disastrous is the fall." (WEY) Acts 28:6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. (WEB KJV ASV DBY) 2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (See RSV) Leviticus 13:43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, (See NIV) Nehemiah 9:21 Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell. (See NIV) Job 6:16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. (See NIV)