Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2483
חֳלִי
cholikhol-ee'
sickness
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chŏlîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2483is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2483
malady, anxiety, calamity
The King James renders it: disease, grief, (is) sick(-ness).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
choli is rendered "sickness". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Six of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 7:15And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
Deuteronomy 7:15חֹ֑לִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twenty-four uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sickness his5
- sickness4
- from sickness3
- in sickness his2
- a sickness1
- and an affliction1
- and sickness his1
- and sicknesses1
- for sickness1
- from sickness his1
- in sicknesses1
- sicknesses our1
and 2 more, 24 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מֵחֳלִ֥י3
- חֹ֑לִי2
- חָלְי֔וֹ2
- בְּחָלְיוֹ֙1
- בְחָלְיֽוֹ׃1
- בָּחֳלָיִ֥ים1
- הַחֹ֔לִי1
- וָחֳלִ֥י1
- וְחָלְי֥וֹ1
- וָחֳלָיִ֥ם1
- חֳלִי֙1
- חֳלִ֥י1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular5HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular5HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcmpc/Sp1bp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
three uses
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- חֹ֑לִיcholinoun · masculine singulartagged: sickness
He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- וָחֳלָיִ֥םvocholayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and sicknesses
The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
- חֳלִי֙cholinoun · masculine singulartagged: sickness
1 Kings
one use
Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.
- חָלְיוֹ֙chalyonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sickness his
2 Kings
four uses
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
- מֵחֳלִ֥יmecholipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from sickness
So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
- מֵחֳלִ֥יmecholipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from sickness
So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
- מֵחֳלִ֥יmecholipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from sickness
When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
- חָלְי֔וֹchalyonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sickness his
2 Chronicles
six uses
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
- חָלְי֑וֹchalyonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sickness his
- בְּחָלְיוֹ֙bechalyopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in sickness his
And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
- בָּחֳלָיִ֥יםbocholayimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in sicknesses
- הַחֹ֔לִיhacholithe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sickness
After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
- לָחֳלִ֖יlocholipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a sickness
This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.
- חָלְי֔וֹchalyonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sickness his
Psalms
one use
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- בְחָלְיֽוֹ׃vechalyopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in sickness his
Ecclesiastes
two uses
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
- וְחָלְי֥וֹvechalyoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and sickness his
God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.
- וָחֳלִ֥יvocholiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an affliction
Isaiah
four uses
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
- לָחֳלִ֔יlocholipreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for sickness
This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
- מֵחָלְיֽוֹ׃mechalyopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from sickness his
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- חֹ֑לִיcholinoun · masculine singulartagged: sickness
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- חֳלָיֵ֙נוּ֙cholayenunoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: sicknesses our
Jeremiah
two uses
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
- חֳלִ֥יcholinoun · masculine singulartagged: sickness
Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
- חֳלִ֖יcholinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a sickness
Hosea
one use
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- חָלְי֗וֹchalyonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sickness his
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.