Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2470

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Original: חלה

Transliteration: chalah (châlâh)

Phonetic: khaw-law'

BDB Definition:

to be or become weak, be or become sick, be or become diseased, be or become grieved, be or become sorry
1. (Qal) to be weak, be sick
2. (Piel)
  1. to be or become weak, feel weak
  2. to become sick, become ill
  3. (CLBL) to entreat, pray, beg
3. (Niphal)
  1. to make oneself sick
  2. to be made sick
  3. to be tired
4. (Pual) to be made weak, become weak
5. (Hithpael) to make oneself sick
6. (Hiphil)
  1. to make sore
  2. to make sick
  3. to show signs of sickness, become sick
  4. to grieve
7. (Hophal)
  1. to be made sick
  2. to be wounded

Origin: a primitive root [compare H2342, H2470, H2490]

TWOT entry: 655

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root (compare H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn ; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted ; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick ; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat: - beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (72x)

A Sore (2x)

Agone I Fell Sick (1x)

All The Diseased (1x)

And Besought (1x)

And I Have Not Made Supplication (1x)

And Made Himself Sick (1x)

And Make Thyself Sick (1x)

And Sick (1x)

And The Sick (1x)

And To Pray (1x)

And Was Sick (2x)

As Of A Woman In Travail (1x)

Because He Was Sick (2x)

Besought (1x)

But As For Me, When They Were Sick (1x)

But They Are Not Grieved (1x)

Fell Sick (2x)

For I Am Wounded (2x)

From Me, And I Shall Become Weak (1x)

Grievous (2x)

Had Been Sick (1x)

Hath Laid (1x)

He Besought (1x)

He Was Diseased (1x)

I Am Sick (1x)

I Intreated (1x)

I Was Not Sick (1x)

Intreat (1x)

Is Grievous (2x)

My Infirmity (1x)

None Of You That Is Sorry (1x)

Not Sick (1x)

Of Grief (1x)

Shall Intreat (1x)

Shall Make Suit (1x)

Sick (10x)

That He Fell Sick (1x)

That He Had Been Sick (1x)

That Which Was Sick (2x)

The Diseased (1x)

Then Shall I Be Weak (2x)

Therefore Thou Wast Not Grieved (1x)

They Have Put Themselves To Pain (1x)

To Grief (1x)

To Pray (2x)

Unto Thee, Art Thou Also Become Weak (1x)

Upon Us: Yet Made We Not Our Prayer (1x)

Was Fallen Sick (1x)

Was Sick (2x)

When He Had Been Sick (1x)

Will Intreat (1x)

Wounded (1x)

All Occurrences

Psalm 45:12

And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.(d)

Psalm 77:10

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Psalm 119:58

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.(i)

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 19:6

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.(b)

Proverbs 23:35

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.(i)

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Song of Solomon 2:5

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.(d)

Song of Solomon 5:8

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.(d)

Isaiah 14:10

All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

Isaiah 17:11

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.(b)

Isaiah 33:24

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.(a)

Isaiah 38:9

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

Isaiah 39:1

At that time Merodach–baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.(i)

Isaiah 57:10

Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.(i)

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord .(k)

Jeremiah 14:17

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord , and besought the Lord , and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.(d)

Jeremiah 30:12

For thus saith the Lord , Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

Ezekiel 34:4

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Ezekiel 34:21

Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Daniel 8:27

And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.(c)

Hosea 7:5

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.(f)

Amos 6:6

That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.(f)

(g)

Micah 6:13

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

Nahum 3:19

There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?(g)

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H2470

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2470