Suffering
מַחֲלוּיStrong’s H4251machluy (mach-luy)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machluy is the Hebrew word usually translated “sicknesses”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.”
Meaning
- Sickness, sufferingcaused by wounds
How it's translated
- with sicknesses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲלוּי machluy · suffering
1) sickness, suffering 1a) caused by wounds
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “suffering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUF'FERING, participle present
tense Bearing; undergoing pain, inconvenience or damage; permitting; allowing.
All definitions and other forms of “suffering”
SUF'FERING, noun
The bearing of pain, inconvenience or loss; pain endured; distress, loss or injury incurred; as sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.
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.