Sickness
מַחֲלֶהStrong’s H4245machaleh (ma-cha-leh)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machaleh is the Hebrew word usually translated “sickness”, “sickness of” and “sickness his”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”
Meaning
- Disease, sickness
How it's translated
- sickness 4
- in sickness of 1
- sickness his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:25And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
- 1 Kings 8:37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
- 2 Chronicles 6:28If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
- 2 Chronicles 21:15And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
- Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲלֶה machaleh · sickness
disease, sickness Another spelling of ma.cha.lah (מַחֲלָה "sickness" H4245B)
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.