DISEASE & SICKNESS LISTED IN THE BIBLE
DEFINITIONS:
Hebrew choli sickness, weakness, malady,
disease
chala to be sick, to
be diseased
chalah to be or become sick,
or diseased
madveh disease, sickness
machaleh sickness, disease, infirmity
machalab sickness, disease, infirmity
dabar thing or matter, cause,
disease, harm, hurt
Greek astheneo to lack strength
astheneia
want of strength
malakia softness, debility, disease
nosema sickness, unsoundness,
ailment, disease
nosos sickness, unsoundness,
malady, disability,
infirmity, disease
kakos to be badly (physically or
morally), to be ill,
diseased
LIST OF DISEASES:
Ague qaddachath inflamed, burning fever, with chills,
sweating, shivering as in
Malaria
Leviticus 26:16 “I also will do this unto you; I will
even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning
ague that shall consume the eye, and cause sorrow of heart:
and he shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it.”
Abscess shechiyn
burn, inflammation, ulcer, boil, botch,
a collection of pus
surrounded by inflamed
tissue
II Kings 20:7 “And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And
they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.”
Atrophy kachash a failure of flesh, emaciation,
leanness
Job 16:8 “And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is
a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me
beareth witness to my face.”
Job 19:20 “My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my
flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
Blindness ivver blind, film over the eyes, to
put out eyes
tuphlos opaque as if smoky, blind
Job 29:15 “I was eyes to the blind, and feet
was I to the lame.”
Matthew 9:27 “And when Jesus departed thence, two
blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of
David, have mercy on us.”
Boils shechiyn to burn, inflame,
ulcer, botch
Exodus 9:10 “And they took ashes of the furnace, and
stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven;
and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man,
and upon beast.”
Blains ababuah
eruption, belch forth, an inflammatory
swelling or sore
Exodus 9:10 “And they took ashes of the furnace, and
stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven;
and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man,
and upon beast.”
Burning charchur hot fever, extreme burning
Deuteronomy 28:22 “The Lord shall smite thee with a
consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and
with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue these until
thou perish.”
Consumption shachepheth emaciation, to peel,
thin,
a progressive wasting away of the
body as in pulmonary tuberculosis
Leviticus 26:16 “I also will do this unto you; I will
even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the
burning ague that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of
heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies
shall eat it.”
Deuteronomy 28:22 “The Lord shall smite thee with a
consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and
with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting,
and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou
perish.”
Demonic possession daimonizomai to be exercised by
a
demon, vexed,
possessed with demons
Matthew 9:32 “As they went out, behold, they brought to
him a dumb man possessed with a demon.”
Matthew 15:22 “And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of
the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O
Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with
a demon.”
Mark 5:15 “And they come to Jesus, and see him that was
possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting,
and clothes, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.”
Deaf herish deaf, silent, still
kophos blunted of hearing,
deaf
Psalms 38:13 “But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and
I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.”
Mark 7:32 “And they bring unto him one that was deaf,
and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon
him.”
Debility
anah afflict, weaken,
debilitate
koach koach strength, vigor
Psalms 102:23 “He weakened (anah) my
strength (koach koach) in the way; he
shortened my days.”
Dropsy
hudropikos
looking watery, dropsy,
edema,
swelling, watery like swelling
Luke 14:2 “And, behold, there was a certain man
before him which had the dropsy.”
Dumbness
illem
dumb, speechless, tongue
tied, put to
silence
kophos blunted of hearing,
deaf, speechless
Psalms 38:13 “But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and
I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.”
Proverbs 31:8 “Open thy mouth for the dumb
in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
Matthew 9:32 “As they went out, behold, they
brought to him a dumb man possessed with a demon.”
Dysentery
meeh to be soft, intestines,
abdomen, stomach, belly
yatsa to fall out, go
out, grow out, come out
II Chronicles 21:14-15, 18-19 “Behold, with a great
plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and
thy wives, and all thy goods: And thou shalt have great
sickness by disease of thy bowels (meeh), until thy
bowels fall out (yatsa) by reason of the sickness
day by day…And after all this the Lord smote him in his
bowels (meeh) with an incurable disease.
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out (yatsa) by reason of
his sickness: so he died of sore diseases…”
Emerods
ophel
a swelling, to
mound, boils
techorim tumor
Deuteronomy 28:27 “ The Lord will smite the botch
of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and
with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.”
I Samuel 5:6 “But the hand of the Lord was heavy
upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them
with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.”
I Samuel 5:12 “And the men that died not were smitten with
the emerods: and the cry of the city
went up to heaven.”
Feeble raphah
frail, feeble,
weak
Ezekiel 7:17 “All hands shall be feeble, and
all knees shall be weak as water.”
Fever qaddachath
inflammation, burning fever,
inflame
puresso to be on
fire, to have a fever,
be sick of a fever
Deuteronomy 28:22 “The Lord shall smite thee with a
consumption, and with a fever (qaddachath), and with
an inflammation, and with an extreme burning (puresso),
and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they
shall pursue thee unto thou perish.”
Matthew 8:14 “And when Jesus was come into Peter’s
house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.”
Impediment speech
mogilalos hardly talking, tongue
tied,
impediment in speech, dumb,
speak with
difficulty
Mark 7:32 “And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had
an impediment in his speech; and they beseech
him to put his hand upon him.”
Inflammation
dalleqeth
a burning fever,
burning, inflamed
Deuteronomy 28:22 “The Lord shall smite thee with a
consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation,
and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
the blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until
thou perish.”
Issue of blood
aihmorrheo
to flow blood,
hemorrhage,
discharge of blood
Matthew 9:20 “And, behold, a woman, which was
diseased with an issue of blood twelve years,
came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:”
Itch
cheres charsh the itch,
scrape, irritating
sensation on the skin, skin
disorder
Deuteronomy 28:27 “The Lord will smite thee with
the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab,
and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed.”
Lameness nakeh
smitten, maimed, lame
pasach to hop, skip, hesitate, limp,
halt, lame
II Samuel 4:4 “And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son
that was lame (nakeh) of his feet. He was
five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to
pass, as she made hasted to flee, that he fell, and became lame
(pasach). And his name was Mephibosheth.”
Job 29:15 “I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I
to the lame.”
II Chronicles 16:12 “And Asa in the thirty and
ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until
his disease was exceeding great: yet in hisdi sease he sought
not to the Lord, but to the physicians.”
Leprosy
tsaraath
leprosy
tsara to scourge,
stricken with leprosy
Leviticus 13:2 “When a man shall have in the skin
of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot,
and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy;
then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his
sons the priests:”
II Kings 5:1 “Now Naaman, captain of the host of
the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and
honorable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto
Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a
leper."
Loss of appetite
zaham
to be rancid, to
loathe, abhor
lechem food,
bread, grain
taavah a
longing, delight, dainty,
pleasant
maakal an
eatable flesh, meat, food,
victual
Job 33:20 “So that his life abhorreth (zaham)
bread (lechem), and his soul dainty (taavah)
meat (maakal).”
Psalms 107:18 “Their soul abhorreth all manner
of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of
death.”
Lunacy
seleniazomai to be moon struck,
crazy, be
lunatic
Matthew 4:24 “And his fame went throughout all
Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were
taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were
possessed with demons, and those which were lunatic, and
those that had the palsy; and he healed them.”
Matthew 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son: for he
is lunatic, and sore vexed: for oft times
he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.”
Maimed
kullos crippled in feet or hands, maimed
Matthew 15:30 “And great multitudes came unto him,
having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many
others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed
them:”
Melancholy baath to
fear, afraid, terrify, trouble,
depression,
dejection
I Samuel 16:14 “But the Spirit of the Lord departed
from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.”
Palsy
paralutikos paralytic,
paralyzed, enfeebled, feeble
Matthew 8:6 “And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at
home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.”
Matthew 9:2 “And, behold, they brought to him a man
sick of palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith
said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be
forgiven thee.”
Plague makkah makkeh
pestilence, plague
wound
deber plague,
destroying,
pestilence
Numbers 11:33 “And while the flesh was yet between
their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was
kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with
a very great plague.”
II Samuel 24:15 “So the Lord sent a pestilence
upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and
there died of the people From Dan even to Beersheba seventy
thousand men.”
Scab
garab
to
scratch, itching, scurvy
Deuteronomy 28:27 “The Lord will smite thee with
the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the
scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed.”
Sunstroke rosh to shake, the
head, heat stroke caused by
direct exposure to
the sun
II Kings 4:18-20 “And when the child was grown, it
fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the
reapers. And he said unto his father, My head,
my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat
on her knees till noon, and then died.”
Isaiah 49:10 “They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun smite them:
for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the
springs of water shall he guide them.”
Stomach illness stomachos
the gullet,
stomach
meketi no further, any longer, not
any more
hudropoteo a water drinker
oligos little, small
oinos wine
stomachos
the gullet, stomach
puknos frequent, often
astheneia feebleness, malady, frailty,
disease, infirmity, sickness,
weakness, impotence
I Timothy 5:23 “Drink no longer (meketi)
water (hubropoteo), but use a little (oligos)
wine (oinos) for thy stomach’s sake (stomachos)
and thine often (puknos) infirmities (astheneia).”
Ulcers
petsa’
wound
chabburah black and
blue marks,
bruise, wound
tariy moist,
dripping, fresh,
putrefying
makkah makkeh wound, sore
rakak mollify, soft, tender
shemen ointment,
grease, liquid from
the olive + pine
Isaiah 1:6 “From the sole of the foot even unto the
head there is no soundness in it; but wounds (petsa’),
and bruises (chabburah), and putrefying
(tariy) sores (makkah makkeh): they have not
been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified (rakak)
with ointment (shemen).”
Weak
halak
be
weak
Ezekiel 7:17 “All hands shall be feeble, and all
knees shall be weak as water.”
Withered hand
xeros
shrunken, withered
cheir the
hand
Matthew 12:9-10 “And when he was departed thence,
he went into their synagogue: and, behold, there was a man
which had his hand withered…”
Worms
skolekobrotos worm eaten,
diseased with
maggots
Acts 12:23 “And immediately the angel of the Lord
smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten
of worms, and gave up the ghost.”
Wrinkles
qamat
fill with wrinkles,
ridge, crease, skin
condition due to age, care or fatigue
Job 16:8 “And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,
which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.”
PHYSICIANS
Genesis 50:2
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
II Chronicles 16:12
“And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in
his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: ye in his disease
he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.”
Job 13:4
“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no
value.”
Jeremiah 8:22
“Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”
Matthew 9:12; Mark 2:17; Luke 5:31
“But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole
need not a physician, but they that are sick.”
Mark 5:26; Luke 8:43
“And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had
spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew
worse.”
Luke 4:23
“And he said unto the, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb,
Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in
Capernaum, do also here in thy country.”
Colossians 4:13
“Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.”
MEDICINES USED FOR CURING
Proverbs 17:22
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a
broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Isaiah 1:6
“From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness
in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not
been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”
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