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:
Isaiah 39:1: "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,"
Isaiah 57:10: "therefore thou wast not grieved."
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"
Jeremiah 10:19: "is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly"
Jeremiah 12:13: "wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed"
Jeremiah 14:17: "with a great breach, with a very grievous blow."
Jeremiah 26:19: "did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD,"
Jeremiah 30:12: "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"
Ezekiel 34:4: "strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither that which was broken, neither"
Ezekiel 34:16: "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"
Ezekiel 34:21: "and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, ye have scattered"
Daniel 8:27: "And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did"
Daniel 9:13: "evil upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD"
Hosea 7:5: "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out"
Amos 6:6: "themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved the affliction of Joseph."
Micah 1:12: "For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down"
Micah 6:13: "Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins."
Nahum 3:19: "healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit"
Zechariah 7:2: "Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before"
Zechariah 8:21: "another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD,"
Zechariah 8:22: "the LORD in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD."
Malachi 1:8: "and if ye offer and sick, is it not evil? offer it now"
Malachi 1:9: "And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means:"
Malachi 1:13: "of hosts; and ye brought and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering:"
