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title: חֳלִי — sickness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֳלִי (2483), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 24 times: sickness. BDB 1906: n.m. sickness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֳלִי

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«חֳלִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sickness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 24 times · **Key:** 2483 · **BDB:** חֳלִי

### Glosses

sickness (17); sicknesses (2); \[is\].a.sickness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sickness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2483/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sickness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2483/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 28:59 sickness, חֳלִי Dt 28:61 + 8 times; חֹ֑לִי Dt 7:15 + 2 times; sf. חָלְיוֹ Is 38:9 + 7 times + Ec 5:16 (where del. sf., cf. Vrss Now); pl. חֳלָיִם Dt 28:59, חֳלָיִים 2 Ch 21:15, חֳלָיֵנוּ Is 53:4;—sickness, disease Dt 7:15; 28:59, 61 1 K 17:17 2 K 1:2; 8:8, 9; 13:14 Is 38:9 2 Ch 16:12(×2); 21:15(×2), 19 ψ 41:4 Ec 6:2; of the suffering servant of י׳ Is 53:3, 4 (in both ‖ מַכְאֹב); of rich man Ec 5:16 (read וָחֳלִי, v. supr.); incurable disease ח׳ לְאֵין מַרְפֵּא 2 Ch 21:18; recover from sickness חיה מֵחלי Is 38:9; metaph. of distress of land Ho 5:13 (‖ מָזוֹר), Is 1:5 Je 10:19; = wound, of violence in Jerusalem Je 6:7 (‖ מַכָּה).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֳלִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2483/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 41:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.41.4/)

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יְֽהוָ֗ה יִ֭סְעָדֶנּוּ עַל־עֶ֣רֶשׂ דְּוָ֑י כָּל־מִ֝שְׁכָּב֗וֹ הָפַ֥כְתָּ בְחָלְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh he will.support.him on a.couch of.illness all bed his you.have.changed in sickness his

*JPS 1917:* The LORD support him upon the bed of illness; mayest Thou turn all his lying down in his sickness.

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[Isaiah 38:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.9/)

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מִכְתָּ֖ב לְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֑ה בַּחֲלֹת֕וֹ וַיְחִ֖י מֵחָלְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.writing of Hezekiah the.king of.Judah when he was.sick and he.lived from sickness his

*JPS 1917:* The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

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