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# מַחֲלֶה

Biblical Hebrew

**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/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5d7_5b2_5dc_5b6_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲלֶה: sickness, disease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5d7_5b2_5dc_5b6_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sickness, disease—sf. מַחֲלֵהוּ Pr 18:14 his sickness (= any sickness of his); of specif. disease, cstr. מַחֲלֵה מֵעֶ֑יךָ 2 Ch 21:15 (+ בָּחֳלָיִים רַבִּים, מֵהַחֹ֑לִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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 (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.14/#tree)

רֽוּחַ־אִ֭ישׁ יְכַלְכֵּ֣ל מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ וְר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה מִ֣י יִשָּׂאֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].spirit of.a.person it.will.endure sickness his and a.spirit stricken who? will he.bear.it

*JPS 1917:* The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?

[2 Chronicles 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.15/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֛ה בָּחֳלָיִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים בְּמַחֲלֵ֣ה מֵעֶ֑יךָ עַד־יֵצְא֤וּ מֵעֶ֙יךָ֙ מִן־הַחֹ֔לִי יָמִ֖ים עַל־יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and you \[will be\].in.sickness(es) great in.(the) sickness your.bowels your until they.will.come.out bowels your from the sickness days to days

*JPS 1917:* and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5d7_5b2_5dc_5b6_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5d7_5b2_5dc_5b6_5d4/): 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).