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# מַחֲלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4245

**sickness** — used 4 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/1502/4245/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲלָה: n.f. sickness, disease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4245/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sickness, disease, מַחֲלָה Ex 15:26 + 3 times—sickness, disease (in gen.) Ex 23:25 (JE); so c. כל, 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28 (‖ כל־נֶגַע), Ex 15:26 (JE; cf. אני יהוה רֹפְאֶ֑ךָ ad fin.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sickness (4).

## In the verses

[Exodus 23:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.25/#tree)

וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗ם אֵ֚ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם וּבֵרַ֥ךְ אֶֽת־לַחְמְךָ֖ וְאֶת־מֵימֶ֑יךָ וַהֲסִרֹתִ֥י מַחֲלָ֖ה מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.serve (et) Yahweh God your and he.will.bless (et) food your and (et) water your and I.will.remove sickness from midst your

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

[1 Kings 8:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.8.37/#tree)

רָעָ֞ב כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֣ה בָאָ֗רֶץ דֶּ֣בֶר כִּֽי־יִ֠הְיֶה שִׁדָּפ֨וֹן יֵרָק֜וֹן אַרְבֶּ֤ה חָסִיל֙ כִּ֣י יִהְיֶ֔ה כִּ֧י יָֽצַר־ל֛וֹ אֹיְב֖וֹ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ שְׁעָרָ֑יו כָּל־נֶ֖גַע כָּֽל־מַחֲלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* famine (dm) it.will.be in the land pestilence (dm) it.will.be blight mildew locust\[s\] locust\[s\] (dm) it.will.be (dm) he.will.lay.siege to it enemy its in the.land its.gates his any plague any sickness

*JPS 1917:* If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4245.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4245/): 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).