Illness
דְּוַיStrong’s H1741devay (de-vay)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Devay is the Hebrew word usually translated “like illness of” and “illness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.”
Meaning
- Illness, languishing
How it's translated
- like illness of 1
- illness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
דְּוַי devay · illness
illness, languishing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “illness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ILL'NESS, noun
[from ill.]
Badness; unfavorableness; as the illness of the weather. [Not used.]
- Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness.
- Wickedness; iniquity; wrong moral conduct.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.