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# חָלָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2456

**be sick** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

**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).

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he became sick (1).

## In the verses

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

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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2456.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2456/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).