tachalu · diseases

What it means

tachalu (תַּחֲלוּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “diseases”.

Ailments that leave one bedridden.

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. Bodily ills that lay someone low.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• diseases ×2
• ailments ×1
• sicknesses ×1
• those sick ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×2

• Deuteronomy 29:22

  And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say, when they see the blows of that land and its sicknesses with which YHWH has made it sick

• 2 Chronicles 21:19

  And it happened, as days passed, and at the time of the coming of the end of two years, his bowels came out with his disease, and he died in evil ailments. His people did not make for him a burning like the burning of his fathers.

• Psalms 103:3

  who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases,

• Jeremiah 14:18

  If I go out into the field, look, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, look, those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest roam about through the land, and they do not know.’”

• Jeremiah 16:4

  Of deaths from diseases they will die; they will not be mourned or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be; and by the sword and by famine they will be finished off; and their corpses will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.