תַּחֲלוּא
tachălûwʼ · H8463 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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sickness, disease
State in which humans lack physical strength; caused by sickness or injury
ExamplesDeuteronomy 29:22 “Now the future generation, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,
2 Chronicles 21:19 Now it came about in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness, and he died in great pain. And his people did not make a funeral fire for him like the fire for his fathers.
Psalm 103:3 Who pardons all your guilt, Who heals all your diseases;
How it’s used In 5 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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- רָעָבfamine, hunger 1
- ךְyour 1
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָלָהto be sick, to be weak 1
- רַעevil, bad 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָמוֹתdeath 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 3 words
- מַדְוֶה madveh · H4064 · disease
- Both words denote disease or sickness in Hebrew.
- חֳלִי chŏlîy · H2483 · disease, sickness, injury
- Both lexemes denote states of disease or sickness, with glosses that genuinely overlap in that sense, making them near-synonyms.
- מַחְלֻי machluy · H4251 · wound, injury
- Both words denote disease or sickness as Hebrew nouns and can substitute for each other in context.
In the other Testament 1 word
- νόσος nósos · G3554 · diseased, disease, sickness
- Greek νόσος translates Hebrew תַּחֲלוּא as the standard LXX equivalent for disease/sickness, both denoting physical malady or illness without meaningful semantic distinction.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weak002001001069
- This noun denotes bodily disease, as in Psalm 103:3's praise of the LORD who heals all one's diseases.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8463. tachalu תַּחֲלֻאִים noun plural masculine2Ch 21:19 diseases, absolute ׳ת Jer 16:4;…
תַּחֲלֻאִים noun plural masculine2Ch 21:19 diseases, absolute ׳ת Jer 16:4; 2Ch 21:19; construct תַּחֲלוּאֵי Jer 14:18; תַּחֲלוּאָ֫יְכִי Psa 103:3; תַּחֲלֻאַ֫יהָ Deu 29:21; — diseases Deu 29:21; 2Ch 21:19; Psa 103:3; יָמֻתוּ תחלאים מְמוֺתֵי Jer 16:4; רעב תחלואי Jer 14:18 diseases of famine (|| חַלְלֵיחֶחֶרֶב).
II. חלא (√of following; DHM in MV compare Sabean ותחלאן פחֿטאת she sinned and defiled herself).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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