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title: חָלָא — be sick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלָא (2456), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be sick. BDB 1906: vb. be sick, diseased. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָלָא

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«חָלָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be sick** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2456 · **BDB:** חָלָא

### Glosses

he.became.sick (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2456/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be sick, diseased [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2456/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sick, diseased (= חלה, v. Ges§ 75, 22)— Impf. וַיֶּחֱלֶא אָסָא … בְּרַגְלָיו 2 Ch 16:12 (= חלה 1 K 15:23).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָלָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2456/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 16:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.12/)

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וַיֶּחֱלֶ֣א אָסָ֡א בִּשְׁנַת֩ שְׁלוֹשִׁ֨ים וָתֵ֤שַׁע לְמַלְכוּתוֹ֙ בְּרַגְלָ֔יו עַד־לְמַ֖עְלָה חָלְי֑וֹ וְגַם־בְּחָלְיוֹ֙ לֹא־דָרַ֣שׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֖י בָּרֹפְאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.became.sick Asa in year thirty and nine of reign his in feet his \[was\].to (to) upwards sickness his and also in sickness his not he.sought (et) Yahweh (dm) (in) the physicians

*JPS 1917:* And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great; yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

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