Sickness
חֳלִיStrong’s H2483choli (cho-li)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choli is the Hebrew word usually translated “sickness his”, “sickness” and “from sickness”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.”
Meaning
- Sickness
How it's translated
- sickness his 5
- sickness 4
- from sickness 3
- in sickness his 2
- and sicknesses 1
- in sickness 1
- the sickness 1
- to a sickness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Isaiah 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Jeremiah 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:59Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Deuteronomy 28:61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
- 1 Kings 17:17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
- 2 Kings 1:2And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
- 2 Kings 8:8And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
- 2 Kings 8:9So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Hebrew dictionary
חֳלִי choli · sickness
sickness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.