Strong's #2470: chalah (pronounced khaw-law')
a primitive root (compare 2342, 2470, 2490); 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châlâh
1) to be or become weak, be or become sick, be or become diseased, be or become grieved, be or become sorry
1a) (Qal) to be weak, be sick
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to be or become weak, feel weak
1b2) to become sick, become ill
1b3) (CLBL) to entreat, pray, beg
1c) (Niphal)
1c1) to make oneself sick
1c2) to be made sick
1c3) to be tired
1d) (Pual) to be made weak, become weak
1e) (Hithpael) to make oneself sick
1f) (Hiphil)
1f1) to make sore
1f2) to make sick
1f3) to show signs of sickness, become sick
1f4) to grieve
1g) (Hophal)
1g1) to be made sick
1g2) to be wounded
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2342, H2470, H2490]
Usage:
This word is used 76 times:
Genesis 48:1: "Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two"
Exodus 32:11: "And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why"
Deuteronomy 29:22: "of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid"
Judges 16:7: "were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man."
Judges 16:11: "ropes that never then shall I be weak, and be as another"
Judges 16:17: "I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."
1 Samuel 13:12: "upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered"
1 Samuel 19:14: "David, she said, He is sick."
1 Samuel 22:8: "the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or showeth unto"
1 Samuel 30:13: "to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick."
2 Samuel 13:2: "And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she"
2 Samuel 13:5: "unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh thee, say"
2 Samuel 13:6: "So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said"
1 Kings 13:6: "unto the man of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD"
1 Kings 13:6: "may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD,"
1 Kings 14:1: "Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick."
1 Kings 14:5: "thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say"
1 Kings 15:23: "of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet."
1 Kings 17:17: "of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore,"
1 Kings 22:34: "of the host; for I am wounded."
2 Kings 1:2: "in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: messengers, and said unto"
2 Kings 8:7: "and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told The man of God"
2 Kings 8:29: "in Jezreel, because he was sick."
2 Kings 13:4: "And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto"
2 Kings 13:14: "Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king"
2 Kings 20:1: "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son"
2 Kings 20:12: "he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick."
2 Chronicles 18:33: "of the host; for I am wounded."
2 Chronicles 22:6: "at Jezreel, because he was sick."
2 Chronicles 32:24: "In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto"
2 Chronicles 33:12: "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly"
2 Chronicles 35:23: "to his servants, Have me away; I am sore wounded."
Nehemiah 2:2: "sad, seeing thou art not sick? is nothing else but"
Job 11:19: "and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto"
Psalms 35:13: "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer"
Psalms 45:12: "shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor."
Psalms 77:10: "And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High."
Psalms 119:58: " I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word."
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 entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts."
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?"
Ecclesiastes 5:13: "There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept"
Ecclesiastes 5:16: "And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came,"
Song of Solomon 2:5: "me with apples: for I am sick of love."
Song of Solomon 5:8: "that him, that I am sick am sick of love."
Isaiah 14:10: "and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto"
Isaiah 17:11: "but the harvest shall be a heap of grief and of desperate sorrow."
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"
Isaiah 38:9: "of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:"
