Tachălûwʼ — H8463

Definition

masculine plural noun

a malady

1. diseases

Usually translated as

grievous, sick, disease, sickness

Origin

or tachăluʼ; from H2456

• Derived from Châlâʼ (H2456)

Greek equivalents

• malakía (G3119)
• nósos (G3554)
• pónos (G4192)

Occurrences

Tachălûwʼ occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (1), Jeremiah (2)

• Deuteronomy 29:22 — So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses (תַּ֣חֲלֻאֶ֔יהָ) which the LORD hath laid upon it;
• 2 Chronicles 21:19 — And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases (בְּתַחֲלֻאִ֣ים). And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
• Psalms 103:3 — Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases (תַּחֲלֻאָֽיְכִי);
• Jeremiah 14:18 — If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick (תַּחֲלוּאֵ֣י) with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
• Jeremiah 16:4 — They shall die of grievous (תַחֲלֻאִ֜ים) deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.