Illness
שַׁחֶ֫פֶתStrong’s H7829shachephet (sha-che-phet)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachephet is the Hebrew word usually translated “consumption”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.”
Meaning
- Consumption, wasting diseasea wasting disease of the lungs
How it's translated
- consumption 1
- with consumption 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁחֶ֫פֶת shachephet · illness
1) consumption, wasting disease 1a) a wasting disease of the lungs
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.