Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4245
מַחֲלֶה
machalehmakh-al-eh'
sickness; sickness
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machăleh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4245is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4245
sickness
The King James renders it: disease, infirmity, sickness.
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
machaleh is rendered "sickness; sickness". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "sickness".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Exodus 15:26הַמַּֽחֲלָ֞ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: sickness, and sickness.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| sicknessStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God… |
| sicknessStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sickness3
- in sickness of1
- sickness his1
- the sickness1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחֲנֶה | machaneh | camp | Uses215 |
| מַחֲשָׁבָה | machashabah | plot | Uses56 |
| מַחֲלֹקֶת | machaloqeth | division | Uses42 |
| מַחֲסֶה | machaseh | refuge | Uses20 |
| מַחֲצִית | machatsith | half | Uses16 |
| מַחֲבַת | machabath | griddle | Uses5 |
| מַחֲזֶה | machazeh | vision | Uses4 |
| מַחֲרֵשָׁה | machareshah | plowshare | Uses3 |
| מַחֲבֵא | machabe | hiding-place | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָצָה | machalatsah | robe | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָף | machalaph | knife | Uses1 |
| מַחֲנַק | machanaq | strangling | Uses1 |
and 6 more on the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- מַחֲלָֽה׃2
- בְּמַחֲלֵ֣ה1
- הַמַּֽחֲלָ֞ה1
- מַחֲלָ֖ה1
- מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
two uses
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- הַמַּֽחֲלָ֞הhamachalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the sickness
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- מַחֲלָ֖הmachalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sickness
1 Kings
one use
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- מַחֲלָֽה׃machalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sickness
2 Chronicles
two uses
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- מַחֲלָֽה׃machalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sickness
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.’”
- בְּמַחֲלֵ֣הbemachalehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in sickness of
Proverbs
one use
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
- מַחֲלֵ֑הוּmachalehunoun · 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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.