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# disease

noun (a disease, diseases; disease, uncountable)

«disease» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A disease is an illness that affects people, animals or plants, with particular signs (symptoms). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#m1)
2. Disease (uncountable) is illness in general. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and health lessons, some diseases are infectious (caused by germs, like flu, measles and chickenpox) and can spread; others are not (like diabetes). We fight disease with handwashing, clean water, healthy food, exercise and vaccines. Doctors and scientists study diseases to find cures. Plants get diseases too, like mould on leaves. Phrases: heart disease, infectious disease, catch a disease, spread disease, prevent disease.

### Examples

- Measles is a disease that spreads easily. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#x1)
- Washing your hands helps stop disease. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#x2)
- Vaccines protect us from some diseases. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#x3)
- Rats and fleas spread disease in the past. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#x4)
- Heart disease can be helped by exercise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#x5)
- The tree had a disease that killed its leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/#x6)

### Note

Pronounced "di-ZEEZ". Disease is a bit more formal than illness. Not every disease is catching; you cannot catch diabetes or a broken bone. Countable for kinds (many diseases), uncountable in general (fight disease).

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah, the diseases of Egypt are plagues that God keeps from Israel if it obeys and sends on it if it does not.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis read this as a lesson in cause and effect, in which obeying the commandments brings health. A famous saying goes that God is the healer of Israel.

### Examples

- And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee. (Torah DEU.28.60, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/disease/#x1)
- 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. (Torah DEU.7.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/disease/#x2)
- Who forgiveth all thine iniquity; who healeth all Thy diseases; (Writings PSA.103.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/disease/#x3)
- But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. (Prophets 1KI.15.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/disease/#x4)
- And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. (Writings 2CH.21.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/disease/#x5)

### Note

Pronounced "di-ZEEZ". Disease is a bit more formal than illness. Not every disease is catching; you cannot catch diabetes or a broken bone. Countable for kinds (many diseases), uncountable in general (fight disease).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «disease» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disease/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disease» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disease.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «disease» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/disease/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disease» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/disease.html) on Mova free.