חֳלִי
chŏlîy · H2483 · Hebrew · 24 occurrences
Meanings
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disease, sickness, injury
State in which humans are lacking physical strength, as a result of sickness or injury
ExamplesDeuteronomy 7:15 “And the LORD will remove from you all sickness; and He will not inflict upon you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will give them to all who hate you.
Deuteronomy 28:59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
Deuteronomy 28:61 “Also every sickness and every plague, which are not written in the book of this Law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed.
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wrong
An event that is considered morally and/or ethically wrong and that is not supposed to happen
ExamplesEcclesiastes 6:2 a person to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God has not given him the opportunity to enjoy these things, but a foreigner enjoys them. This is futility and a severe affliction.
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
10 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 9
- נוּour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
8 occurrences in 6 groups
- זֶהthis 3
- רַעevil, bad 2
- כָּתַבto write down, to write, to inscribe 1
- מוּתto die 1
- אָמַןto believe, to be faithful, to trust 1
- רַבmany, great 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַכָּהstroke 2
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- חָלָהto be sick, to be weak 1
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
- רָאָהto see 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מַעַלabove, upward, more 1
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- זֶהthis 1
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 4 groups
- מִןfrom 10
- בin/on/with 5
- לto/for 3
- עִםwith 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- תַּחֲלוּא tachălûwʼ · H8463 · sickness, disease
- Both lexemes denote states of disease/sickness and belong to the "Weak" semantic field.
In the other Testament 2 words
- μαλακία malakía · G3119 · disease, sickness
- Greek μαλακία emphasizes the debilitating physical weakness aspect of illness (enervation, debility), whereas Hebrew חֳלִי covers the broader semantic range of disease, sickness, and grief without necessarily foregrounding the weakening effect.
- νόσος nósos · G3554 · diseased, disease, sickness
- Greek νόσος primarily denotes physical disease/malady with rare figurative extension to moral disability, directly corresponding to Hebrew חֳלִי's core semantic range of disease/sickness (with grief as extended sense); both terms function as the standard lexical item for pathological conditions in their respective languages.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Weak002001001069
- The noun names physical sickness and disease, as the LORD promises to remove from Israel "all sickness" they knew in Egypt if they obey Him (Deuteronomy 7:15).
- Wrong002001003019
- The word also names sickness inflicted as a covenant curse for wrongdoing, among the "severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses" brought on the disobedient (Deuteronomy 28:59, 28:61).
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2483. choli חֳלִי noun masculineDeu 28:59 sickness, חֳלִי Deu 28:61 Deu 28:8t.; חֹ֑לִי…
חֳלִי noun masculineDeu 28:59 sickness, חֳלִי Deu 28:61 Deu 28:8t.; חֹ֑לִי Deu 7:15 Deu 7:2t.; suffix חָלְיוֺ Isa 38:9 Isa 38:7t. + Ecc 5:16 (where strike out suffix, compare Vrss Now); plural חֳלָיִם Deu 28:59, חֳלָיִים2Ch 21:15, חֳלָיֵנוּ Isa 53:4; — sickness, disease Deu 7:15; Deu 28:59, Deu 28:61; 1Ki 17:17; 2Ki 1:2; 2Ki 8:8-9, 2Ki 13:14; Isa 38:9; 2Ch 16:12 (twice in verse); 2Ch 21:15 (twice in verse); 2Ch 21:19; Psa 41:4; Ecc 6:2; of the suffering servant of ׳י Isa 53:3-4, (in both || מַכְאֹב); of rich man Ecc 5:16 (read וָחֳלִי see above); incurable disease ׳ח מַרְמֵּא לְאֵין2Ch 21:18; recover from sickness מֵחלי חיה Isa 38:9; metaphor of distress of land Hos 5:13 (|| מָזוֺר), Isa 1:5; Jer 10:19; = wound, of violence in Jerusalem Jer 6:7 (|| מַכָּה).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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