Sickness
μαλακίαStrong’s G3119malakia
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Malakia is the Greek word usually translated “sickness”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.”
Meaning
Usually translated “sickness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- sickness 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 3
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Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 9:35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
- Matthew 10:1And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Greek dictionary
μαλακία malakia · sickness
μαλακία -ας, ἡ (μαλακός), [in LXX chiefly for חֳלִי Deu.7:15 28:61, Isa.38:9 53:3, al. ;] 1. prop., softness, effeminacy (Hdt., Thuc., al). 2. In NT, as in LXX, = ἀσθένεια, weakness, sickness: νόσος καὶ μ., Mat.4:23 9:35 10:1.† SYN.: see: ἀσθένεια (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sickness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SICK'NESS, noun
- Nausea; squeamishness; as sickness of the stomach.
- State of being diseased.
- Disease; malady; a morbid state of the body of an animal or plant, in which the organs do not perfectly perform their natural functions. Matthew 8:17
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.