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# תַּחֲלֻאִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8463

**diseases** — used 5 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

diseases [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8463/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּחֲלֻאִים: n.pl.m. diseases [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8463/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.m. 2 Ch 21:19 diseases, abs. ת׳ Je 16:4 2 Ch 21:19; cstr. תַּחֲלוּאֵי Je 14:18; תַּחֲלוּאָ֑יְכִי ψ 103:3; תַּחֲלֻאֶ֫יהָ Dt 29:21;—diseases Dt 29:21 2 Ch 21:19 ψ 103:3; מְמוֹתֵי תחלאים יָמֻתוּ Je 16:4; תחלואי רעב Je 14:18 diseases of famine (‖ חַלְלֵי־חֶרֶב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: diseases (4); of diseases (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 103:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.3/#tree)

הַסֹּלֵ֥חַ לְכָל־עֲוֺנֵ֑כִי הָ֝רֹפֵ֗א לְכָל־תַּחֲלֻאָֽיְכִי׃

*Word for word:* \[who\] forgives (to) all iniquity your \[who\] heals (to) all diseases your

*JPS 1917:* Who forgiveth all thine iniquity; who healeth all Thy diseases;

[Jeremiah 14:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.18/#tree)

אִם־יָצָ֣אתִי הַשָּׂדֶ֗ה וְהִנֵּה֙ חַלְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶב וְאִם֙ בָּ֣אתִי הָעִ֔יר וְהִנֵּ֖ה תַּחֲלוּאֵ֣י רָעָ֑ב כִּֽי־גַם־נָבִ֧יא גַם־כֹּהֵ֛ן סָחֲר֥וּ אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ וְלֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* if I.went.out the field and there! \[those\].slain of.a.sword and if I.went the city and there! diseases of.famine (dm) both prophet as.well.as priest they.have.gone.about to a.land and not they.know

*JPS 1917:* If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest are gone about to a land, and knew it not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8463/): 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).