Dictionaries :: Cripple

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Cripple:

krip'-'-l (cholos): Only occurs in Ac 14:8, denoting the congenitally lame man at Lystra. In the King James Version (1611) the word is spelled "creeple." It originally meant one whose body is bent together as in the attitude of creeping. This was probably a case of infantile paralysis.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Cripple:

For CRIPPLE see HALT