Words the Bible translates as sick
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- astheneōἀσθενέωto be sick: to suffer bodily illness or disease
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- to be weak: to lack strength, standing, or capacity, whether in faith, in conscience, in resources, or in power
- ḥalahחָלָהto become sick, weak, or wounded: to lose strength, whether by illness, exhaustion, or injury
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- to entreat someone's favor: to soften a superior's face, to plead and appease
- asthenēsἀσθενήςwithout strength: lacking the power, health, or standing that would make someone or something able and secure
- kakōsκακῶςbadly off in body: sick, suffering severely, or brought to a wretched end
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- in a way that is wrong: improperly, out of bad motives, or abusively
- kamnōκάμνωto be sick: to be ill, worn down and laid low by disease
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- to grow weary: to be worn down by long effort until strength and resolve start to give out
- arrōstosἄρρωστοςsick, ill: physically unwell enough to need care or healing.
- davehדָּוֶהailing: drained of strength, whether a body that is unwell, a woman in her monthly bleeding, or a heart giving out under grief
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