machale · sickness

What it means

machale (מַחֲלֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sickness”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A bodily ailment that weakens and can take life.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sickness ×4
• disease ×1
• diseases ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Proverbs×1

• Exodus 15:26

  He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of YHWH your Elohim, and do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not put on you any of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians; for I am YHWH, your healer.”

• Exodus 23:25

  You shall serve YHWH your Elohim, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

• 1 Kings 8:37

  If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper, if there are these; if his enemy besieges him in the land of his gates; any sore, any sickness;

• 2 Chronicles 6:28

  When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there are blight and mildew, locust and hopper; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; any sore and any sickness;

• 2 Chronicles 21:15

  and you will have many diseases, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day after day.’”

• Proverbs 18:14

  The spirit of a man will sustain his sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear it?