Lexicon :: Strong's H2470 - ḥālâ

Now some time after these things happened, Joseph was told, “Your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him [to go to Goshen].

But Moses appeased and entreated the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

“Now the next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,

At that time Abijah the son [and crown prince, heir] of Jeroboam became sick.

Now as for the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, everything that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But during the time of his old age he had a foot disease.

It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

But one man drew a bow at [fn]random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, because I have been seriously wounded.”

Now Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-hadad king of Aram (Syria) was sick; and he was told, “The man of God has come here.”

Now Elisha had become sick with the illness by which he would die. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!”

In those days [when Sennacherib first invaded Judah] Hezekiah became deathly ill. The prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not recover.’”

At that time [fn]Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill; and he prayed to the LORD, and He answered him and gave him a [miraculous] sign.

“You would lie down with no one to frighten you,

And many would entreat and seek your favor.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (mourning garment);

I humbled my soul with fasting,

And I prayed with my head bowed on my chest.

The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;

The rich among the people will seek your favor.

And I said, “This is my grief,

That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

I sought Your favor with all my heart;

Be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Many will seek the favor of a generous and noble man,

And everyone is a friend to him who gives gifts.

“They struck me, but I was not hurt!

They beat me, but I did not feel it!

When will I wake up?

I will seek more wine.”

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being kept and hoarded by their owner to his own misery.

“Sustain me with raisin cakes,

Refresh me with apples,

Because I am sick with love.

“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,

If you find my beloved,

As to what you tell him—

[Say that] I am sick from love [sick from being without him].”

“All of them will respond [tauntingly] and say to you,

‘You have become as weak as we are.

You have become like us.

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,

And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;

Yet [promising as it is] the harvest will be a heap [of ruins that passes away]

In the day of sickness and incurable pain.

And no inhabitant [of Zion] will say, “I am sick”;

The people who dwell there will be forgiven their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing].

In those days Hezekiah [king of Judah] became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, “For the LORD says this, ‘Set your house in order and prepare a will, for you shall die; you will not live.’”

This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent [messengers with] letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.