choli · sickness

What it means

choli (חֳלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sickness”.

Disease; also suffering.

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, or the pain someone bears.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sickness ×15
• disease ×5
• sicknesses ×2
• diseases ×1
• sick ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1

• Deuteronomy 7:15

  YHWH will remove from you all sickness; and all the evil ailments of Egypt that you know, he will not put them on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

• Deuteronomy 28:59

  then YHWH will make extraordinary your blows and the blows of your offspring, blows great and lasting, and sicknesses severe and lasting.

• Deuteronomy 28:61

  Also every sickness and every blow that is not written in the book of this instruction, YHWH will bring them up on you until you are destroyed.

• 1 Kings 17:17

  And it happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.

• 2 Kings 1:2

  Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room that was in Samaria and became sick. He sent messengers and said to them, “Go, consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will live through this sickness.”

• 2 Kings 8:8

  The king said to Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of Elohim, and consult YHWH through him, saying, ‘Will I live through this sickness?’”

• 2 Kings 8:9

  Hazael went to meet him and took a gift with him, all kinds of good things of Damascus, forty camel loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I live through this sickness?’”

• 2 Kings 13:14

  Now Elisha fell sick with the sickness of which he would die, and Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept over his face and said, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!”

• 2 Chronicles 16:12

  Asa became diseased in year thirty-nine of his reign in his feet, until his disease was very severe; yet even in his disease he did not seek YHWH, but the physicians.

• 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.’”

• 2 Chronicles 21:18

  After all this YHWH struck him in his bowels with a disease for which there was no cure.

• 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 41:3

  YHWH will support him on the couch of illness; all his bed you have changed in his sickness.

• Ecclesiastes 5:17

  Also all his days he eats in darkness, with much vexation and his sickness and wrath.

• Ecclesiastes 6:2

  a man to whom Elohim gives riches and possessions and honor, and he is not lacking for his soul anything of all that he desires; but Elohim does not give him power to eat from it, for a foreigner eats it. This is vapor and a bad sickness.

• Isaiah 1:5

  Why will you be struck again, that you keep adding rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

• Isaiah 38:9

  A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had lived from his sickness:

• Isaiah 53:3

  Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and acquainted with sickness; and like one from whom the face is hidden, despised, and we did not esteem him.

• Isaiah 53:4

  Surely our sicknesses he carried, and our pains he bore them; yet we considered him stricken, struck by Elohim and afflicted.

• Jeremiah 6:7

  As a well pours out its waters, so she pours out her evil; violence and devastation are heard in her; before me continually are sickness and wounds.

• Jeremiah 10:19

  Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is incurable. But I said: “Surely this is a sickness, and I must bear it.”

• Hosea 5:13

  And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound; and Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb; but he cannot heal you, and he will not cure you of your wound.

And 2 more times.