Strong's #7829: shachepheth (pronounced shakh-eh'-feth)

from the same as 7828; emaciation:--consumption.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shachepheth

1) consumption, wasting disease

1a) a wasting disease of the lungs

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the same as H7828

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Leviticus 26:16: "over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow"
Deuteronomy 28:22: "The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting,"