Illness

Usually translated “diseases” and “disease”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• diseases 7
• disease 3
• with diseases 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Matthew 5
• Luke 3
• Mark 2
• Acts 1

4 books in all.

• Illness (devay)
• Illness (shachephet)

• Matthew 4:24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
• Matthew 8:17That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
• 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.
• Mark 1:34And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
• Mark 3:15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “illness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.