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Disease

מַדְוֶהStrong’s H4064

madveh (mad-veh)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Madveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “diseases of” and “disease of”. It appears in 2 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.”
Deuteronomy 7:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sickness, disease
How it's translated
  • diseases of 1
  • disease of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַדְוֶה madveh · disease

sickness, disease

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

DISEASE, noun

Dizeze. [dis and ease.]

  1. In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used by Spenser; but in this sense, obsolete.
  2. The cause of pain or uneasiness; distemper; malady; sickness; disorder; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound.
  3. A disordered state of the mind or intellect, by which the reason is impaired.
  4. In society, vice; corrupt state of morals.
All definitions and other forms of “disease”
  1. Political or civil disorder, or vices in a state; any practice which tends to disturb the peace of society, or impede or prevent the regular administration of government.

DISEASE, verb transitive

dizeze.

  1. To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of the several organs of a living body; to afflict with pain or sickness to make morbid; used chiefly in the passive participle, as a diseased body, a diseased stomach; but diseased may here be considered as an adjective.
  2. To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect; to disorder; to derange.
  3. To infect; to communicate disease to, by contagion.
  4. To pain; to make uneasy.

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.