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title: מַחֲלוּיִם — sickness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחֲלוּיִם (4251), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sickness. BDB 1906: n.m. sickness, suffering. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחֲלוּיִם

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«מַחֲלוּיִם» 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4251 · **BDB:** מַחֲלוּי

### Glosses

sicknesses (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sickness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4251/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sickness, suffering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4251/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sickness, suffering (caused by wounds, cf. חלה 2 K 8:29)—only pl. intens. מַחֲלֻיִים 2 Ch 24:25.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחֲלוּיִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4251/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 24:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.24.25/)

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וּבְלֶכְתָּ֣ם מִמֶּ֗נּוּ כִּֽי־עָזְב֣וּ אֹתוֹ֮ בְּמַחֲלוּיִ֣ם רַבִּים֒ הִתְקַשְּׁר֨וּ עָלָ֜יו עֲבָדָ֗יו בִּדְמֵי֙ בְּנֵי֙ יְהוֹיָדָ֣ע הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וַיַּֽהַרְגֻ֥הוּ עַל־מִטָּת֖וֹ וַיָּמֹ֑ת וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֙הוּ֙ בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֔יד וְלֹ֥א קְבָרֻ֖הוּ בְּקִבְר֥וֹת הַמְּלָכִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and when went they from him (dm) they.had.left him with sicknesses great they.conspired on him servants his.own in the.blood(s) of.the.sons of.Jehoiada the priest and they killed.him on bed his and he.died and they buried.him in the.city of.David and not they buried.him in the.graves of the.kings

*JPS 1917:* 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.

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