Disease
תַּחֲלֻאִיםStrong’s H8463tachalu (ta-cha-lu)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tachalu is the Hebrew word usually translated “diseases its”, “diseases” and “diseases your”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;”
Meaning
- Diseases
How it's translated
- diseases its 1
- in diseases 1
- diseases your 1
- diseases of 1
- diseases 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 21:19And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
- Psalms 103:3Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
- Jeremiah 16:4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּחֲלֻאִים tachalu · disease
diseases
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.]
- In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used by Spenser; but in this sense, obsolete.
- 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.
- A disordered state of the mind or intellect, by which the reason is impaired.
- In society, vice; corrupt state of morals.
All definitions and other forms of “disease”
- 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.
- 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.
- To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect; to disorder; to derange.
- To infect; to communicate disease to, by contagion.
- 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.