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Lexicon :: Strong's H2470 - ḥālâ

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חָלָה
Transliteration
ḥālâ
Pronunciation
khaw-law'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 655

Strong’s Definitions

חָלָה châlâh, khaw-law'; a primitive root (compare H2342, H2470, 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, × pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (× supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x

The KJV translates Strong's H2470 in the following manner: ...sick (34x), beseech (6x), be weak (4x), grievous (4x), be diseased (3x), wounded (3x), pray (3x), intreat (3x), grief (2x), grieved (2x), sore (2x), pain (1x), infirmity (1x), intreated (1x), laid (1x), prayer (1x), sorry (1x), make suit (1x), supplication (1x), travail (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x
The KJV translates Strong's H2470 in the following manner: ...sick (34x), beseech (6x), be weak (4x), grievous (4x), be diseased (3x), wounded (3x), pray (3x), intreat (3x), grief (2x), grieved (2x), sore (2x), pain (1x), infirmity (1x), intreated (1x), laid (1x), prayer (1x), sorry (1x), make suit (1x), supplication (1x), travail (1x).
  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָלָה châlâh, khaw-law'; a primitive root (compare H2342, H2470, 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, × pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (× supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
STRONGS H2470: Abbreviations
† I. חָלָה verb be weak, sick (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲלָא suffer (rare); Assyrian ḫalû, sickness, grief, DlPr 181) —
Qal Perfect ח׳ 1 Kings 14:1 + 8 times; 2nd person feminine singular חָלִית Isaiah 57:10; 1st person singular חָלִיתִי 1 Samuel 30:13 + 2 times; וְחָלִי֫תִי consecutive Judges 16:7, Judges 16:11, Judges 16:17, חָלוּ֫ Jeremiah 5:3 (so read, see below); Imperfect וַיָּ֫חַל 2 Kings 1:2; Infinitive suffix חֲלֹתוֺ Isaiah 38:9; חֲלוֺתִי Psalm 77:11 compare below Pi.; חֲלוֺתָם Psalm 35:13; Participle חֹלֶה Genesis 48:1 + 6 times + 1 Samuel 22:8 (see below); חוֺלֶה Nehemiah 2:2; Malachi 1:13; feminine חוֺלָה Ecclesiastes 5:12 + 3 times (for Jeremiah 4:31 see I. חוּל), construct חוֺלַת Songs 2:5; Songs 5:8; —
1. be or become weak, Samson Judges 16:7; 11; 17; feel weak Isaiah 57:10 (Che) Ezekiel 34:4; 16.
2. become sick, ill Genesis 48:1 (E) 1 Samuel 19:14; 1 Samuel 30:13; 1 Kings 14:1; 5; 1 Kings 15:23 (of Asa,=חלא 2 Chronicles 16:2) 2 Chronicles 17:17; 2 Kings 1:2; 2 Kings 8:7; 2 Kings 13:14 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb) 2 Kings 20:12Isaiah 39:1; Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 38:9; Proverbs 23:35; Psalm 35:13; Nehemiah 2:2, compare Psalm 77:11 חֲלוֺתִי for חַלּוֺתִי Che after Bi; lame and sick — i.e. imperfect for sacrifice — of animals Malachi 1:8; 13; sick from effect of wounds 2 Kings 8:29 2 Chronicles 22:6, compare Proverbs 23:35, מַכָּה with חֳלִי Deuteronomy 28:59; 61; Jeremiah 6:7; Jeremiah 10:19; hyperbole sick from love חוֺלַת אַהֲבָה אני Songs 2:5; Songs 5:8; be sick unto dying חלה לָמוּת 2 Kings 20:1Isaiah 38:1, עדלֿמות ח׳ (late) 2 Chronicles 32:24; Jeremiah 5:3 read probably לֹא חָלוּ֫ (for MT חָ֫לוּ, see I. חול) of the people, unmoved by י׳'s chastisements; thou hast smitten them, but they are not sick (compare Niph. Amos 6:6); of sickness of the mind in MT 1 Samuel 22:8 followed by עַל (but read rather חֹמֵל Greek Version of the LXX Gr Klo Dr); participle as adjective severe, sore רָעָה חוֺלָה Ecclesiastes 5:12; Ecclesiastes 5:15; — on Jeremiah 4:31 see I. חול.
Niph. Perfect 1st person singular נֶחֱלֵיתִי Daniel 8:27; 3rd person plural נֶחְלוּ Amos 6:6; Jeremiah 12:13; Participle feminine נַחֲלָה Isaiah 17:11 + 4 times; plural נַחְלוֺת Ezekiel 34:4 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 34:21; —
1. make oneself sick, figurative for strain oneself Jeremiah 12:13 (but Gr נִלְאוּ).
2. be made sick Daniel 8:27; לֹא נֶח׳ of indifference, apathy Amos 6:6 followed by על (compare Qal Jeremiah 5:3); participle diseased, as substantive with article Ezekiel 34:4 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 34:21;=severe, sore (predicate of מַכָּה) Nahum 3:19; Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 30:12; also (מַכָּה omitted) Isaiah 17:11.
Pi. Perfect חִלָּה make sick, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb + בְּ of land Deuteronomy 29:21; Infinitive construct חַלּוֺתִי הִיא Psalm 77:11 read probably חֲלוֺתִי Infinitive Qal; my sickness, so Bi Che (others derive from חלל my wounding, see De). — For other forms of Pi. see II. חלה.
Pu. Perfect be made weak, 2nd person masculine singular חֻלֵּיתָ Isaiah 14:10.
Hithp. Imperfect וַיִּתְחָ֑ל 2 Samuel 13:6; Imperative הִתְחָ֑ל 2 Samuel 13:5; Infinitive הִתְחַלּוֺת 2 Samuel 13:2; — make oneself sick, of Ammon's morbid passion for his sister 2 Samuel 13:2, followed by בַּעֲבוּר; of his pretended sickness of body 2 Samuel 13:5; 6.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֶחֱלִי Isaiah 53:10; 1st person singular הֶחֱלֵתִי Micah 6:13; plural הֶחֱלוּ Hosea 7:5 (on text see below); Participle מַחֲלָה Proverbs 13:12; —
1. make (sick, i.e.) sore thy smiting הַכּוֺתֶ֑ךָ Micah 6:13 (compare Nahum 3:19, Niph.); object (implicit) a person, חָפֵץ דַּכְּאוֺ וי׳ הֶחֱלִי Isaiah 53:10 it pleased י׳ to bruise him, making him sick=to bruise him sorely, see further Di.
2. make sick, object לֵב (of hope deferred) Proverbs 13:12..
3. shew (signs of) sickness, become sick, only שׂרים חֲמַת מִיָּ֑יִן הֶח׳ Hosea 7:5 princes are become sick with fever of wine (Now Che VB; > Vrss Hi-St who read הֵחֵלּוּ they begin the day with wine-fever).
Hoph. Perfect be made sick=wounded הָֽחָלֵיתִי 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33; 35:23.

II. [חָלָה] verb only
Pi. followed by פְּנֵי, פָּנֶיךָ, פָּנַיִךְ mollify, appease, entreat the favour of, literally make the face of any one sweet or pleasant (compare Arabic حَلَا, حَلِىَ, be sweet, pleasant, Aramaic Wlo, חֲלִי, id., adjective חָלֵי sweet); —
Pi. Perfect חִלָּה 2 Chronicles 33:12, חִלִּיתִי 1 Samuel 13:12; Psalm 119:58, וְחִלּוּ consecutive Job 11:19, חִלִּינוּ Daniel 9:13; Imperfect וַיְחַל Exodus 32:11 + 3 times, יְחַלּוּ Psalm 45:13; Proverbs 19:6; Imperative חַלנָֿא 1 Kings 13:6, חַלּוּנָֿא Malachi 1:9; Infinitive construct לְחַלּוֺת Zechariah 7:2 + 2 times; —
1. אתפֿנייֿ׳ ׃ח׳
a. mollify, pacify, appease י׳, i.e. induce him to shew favour in place of wrath and chastisement Exodus 32:11 (JE), 1 Kings 13:6 (+ הִתְפַּלֵּל), 1 Kings 13:6; 2 Kings 13:4; Jeremiah 26:19 (+ וַיִּנָּ֫חֶם), 2 Chronicles 33:12 (|| וַיִּכָּנַע מאד מִלִּפְנֵי), Daniel 9:13; also פניאֵֿל ח׳ Malachi 1:9 (followed by וִיחָנֵּ֫נוּ that he may be gracious to us).
b. entreat the favour of י׳, i.e. aim at success, prosperity, etc., through his favour, 1 Samuel 13:12 (in anticipation of war), Zechariah 8:21; 22 (|| לְבַקֵּשׁ אֶתיֿ׳; of cities and nations assembling at Jerusalem for worship), Zechariah 7:2 (|| לְבַקֵּשׁ אֶתיֿ׳) of worship at Jerusalem; quite generally, as habit of God-fearing man, Psalm 119:58 (+ בְּכָללַֿב).
2. entreat favour of men (in sense of 1b) — רַבִּים יְח׳ פנינָֿדִיב Proverbs 19:6 many entreat a prince's favour (|| וְכָלהָֿרֵעַ לְאִישׁ מַתָּן); פָּנַיִךְ יח׳ Psalm 45:13 of favour of king's bride; רַבִּים פָּנַיִךְ וְח׳ Job 11:19 favour of Job when absolved and restored.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

48:1; 48:1

Exodus

32:11; 32:11

Deuteronomy

28:59; 28:61; 29:21

Judges

16:7; 16:7; 16:11; 16:11; 16:17; 16:17

1 Samuel

13:12; 13:12; 19:14; 22:8; 22:8; 30:13; 30:13

2 Samuel

13:2; 13:2; 13:5; 13:5; 13:6; 13:6

1 Kings

13:6; 13:6; 13:6; 14:1; 14:1; 14:5; 15:23; 22:34

2 Kings

1:2; 1:2; 8:7; 8:29; 13:4; 13:14; 20:1; 20:12

2 Chronicles

16:2; 17:17; 18:33; 22:6; 32:24; 33:12; 33:12; 35:23

Nehemiah

2:2; 2:2

Job

11:19; 11:19

Psalms

35:13; 35:13; 45:13; 45:13; 77:11; 77:11; 77:11; 119:58; 119:58

Proverbs

13:12; 13:12; 19:6; 19:6; 23:35; 23:35

Ecclesiastes

5:12; 5:12; 5:15

Song of Songs

2:5; 2:5; 5:8; 5:8

Isaiah

14:10; 17:11; 17:11; 33:24; 38:1; 38:9; 38:9; 39:1; 53:10; 53:10; 57:10; 57:10

Jeremiah

4:31; 4:31; 5:3; 5:3; 5:3; 6:7; 10:19; 10:19; 12:13; 12:13; 14:17; 26:19; 30:12

Ezekiel

34:4; 34:4; 34:4; 34:16; 34:21; 34:21

Daniel

8:27; 8:27; 9:13; 9:13

Hosea

7:5; 7:5

Amos

6:6; 6:6; 6:6

Micah

6:13; 6:13

Nahum

3:19; 3:19

Zechariah

7:2; 7:2; 8:21; 8:22

Malachi

1:8; 1:9; 1:9; 1:13; 1:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2470 matches the Hebrew חָלָה (ḥālâ),
which occurs 75 times in 73 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 48:1–Isa 39:1)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:1 - Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - He said, “If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the LORD’s favor.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:14 - When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:8 - Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:13 - David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.’ ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - Then the king said to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored and became as it was before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:1 - At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5 - But the LORD had told Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 - As for all the other events of Asa’s reign, all his achievements, all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? In his old age, however, his feet became diseased.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:17 - Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 - Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - so King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:4 - Then Jehoahaz sought the LORD’s favor, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw how severely the king of Aram was oppressing Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 - Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah’s illness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah[fn] son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab because he had been wounded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:24 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. He prayed to the LORD, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:12 - In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - Archers shot King Josiah, and he told his officers, “Take me away; I am badly wounded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:19 - You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:12 - The city of Tyre will come with a gift,[fn] people of wealth will seek your favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:10 - Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:58 - I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:6 - Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:35 - “They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:13 - I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:16 - This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:5 - Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:10 - They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:24 - No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:9 - A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 - At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery.

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