חָלָה chalah

Hebrew word for “be weak” · Strong’s H2470 · used 75 times in 73 verses

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Meaning

: ill/injured; 1) to be or become weak, be or become sick, be or become diseased, be or become grieved, be or become sorry;

Senses in the lexicon

• be weak: ill (38)
• to beg (16)
• be weak: grieved (12)
• be weak: weak (9)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chalah in context, with how often each is used:

• sick 12
• became sick 6
• entreat 6
• severe 5
• entreated 4
• have been wounded 3
• have entreated 3
• will be weak 3
• had been sick 2
• weak 2
• sick one 2
• sick animal 2

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 16 (3), 2 Samuel 13 (3), Ezekiel 34 (3), Malachi 1 (3), 1 Kings 14 (2), 2 Kings 8 (2), 2 Kings 13 (2), 2 Kings 20 (2), Ecclesiastes 5 (2), Isaiah 38 (2)

Forms

• חלה 18
• חליתי 5
• ויחל 5
• נחלה 5
• החליתי 4
• חולה 3
• החולה 3
• וחליתי 3
• יחלו 2
• לחלות 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chalah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַכָּה makkah “wound” 7
• חִזְקִיָּהוּ chizqiyyah “Hezekiah” 7
• חֳלִי choli “sickness” 5
• שֶׁבֶר shever “breaking” 5
• אֲנִי ani “I” 8
• מָשַׁךְ mashakh “to draw” 4
• רַע ra “bad” 7
• נָא na “please” 6
• רָאָה raah “to see” 8
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 6
• בָּקַשׁ baqash “to seek” 5
• אִם im “if” 7

Key verses

The verses using chalah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 32:11 — And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with…
• 1 Kings 13:6 — And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the…
• 2 Kings 1:2 — And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of…
• 2 Chronicles 33:12 — And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• Ecclesiastes 5:13 — There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
• Isaiah 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his…
• Jeremiah 4:31 — For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that…
• Jeremiah 14:17 — Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is…
• Jeremiah 26:19 — Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which…
• Ezekiel 34:16 — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:…
• Daniel 9:13 — As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our…
• Malachi 1:13 — Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.