חֳלִיchŏlîy

sickness, disease (Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 28:61; Deuteronomy 7:15; Isaiah 38:9; Ecclesiastes 5:16)

Pronunciation: khol-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2483

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 24 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 7:15 And the Lord will protect you from all sickness. He will not let you suffer from the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all your enemies!
  • Deuteronomy 28:59 then the Lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, making you miserable and unbearably sick.
  • Deuteronomy 28:61 The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed.
  • 1 Kings 17:17 Some time later the woman’s son became sick. He grew worse and worse, and finally he died.
  • 2 Kings 1:2 One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.
  • 2 Kings 8:8 the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift to the man of God. Then tell him to ask the Lord, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).