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# מַדְוֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4064

**sickness** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sickness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4064/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַדְוֶה: n.m. sickness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4064/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 7:15 sickness—cstr. sg. מַדְוֵה מִצְרַיִם Dt 28:60 (read מַדְוֵי pl., as 7:15?); cstr. pl. מַדְוֵי מִצְרַיִם Dt 7:15 (both ‖ חֳלִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (the) disease (1); the diseases (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:60](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.60/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.60/#tree)

וְהֵשִׁ֣יב בְּךָ֗ אֵ֚ת כָּל־מַדְוֵ֣ה מִצְרַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָגֹ֖רְתָּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וְדָבְק֖וּ בָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.bring.back on you (et) every (the).disease of.Egypt which you.were.afraid of them and they.will.cling to you

*JPS 1917:* And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

[Deuteronomy 7:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.15/#tree)

וְהֵסִ֧יר יְהוָ֛ה מִמְּךָ֖ כָּל־חֹ֑לִי וְכָל־מַדְוֵי֩ מִצְרַ֨יִם הָרָעִ֜ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָדַ֗עְתָּ לֹ֤א יְשִׂימָם֙ בָּ֔ךְ וּנְתָנָ֖ם בְּכָל־שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.remove Yahweh from you every sickness and all the.diseases of.Egypt (the) harmful which you.experienced not he will.put.them on you and he will.set.them on all \[those who\].hate.you

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4064.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4064/): 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).