Choli חֳלִי

Choli (Hebrew חֳלִי, Strong's H2483) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “sickness”. It occurs 24 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Choli, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 7:15
  And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
• Deuteronomy 28:59
  Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
• Deuteronomy 28:61
  Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 17:17
  And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

2 Kings

• 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 Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
• 2 Kings 8:8
  And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
• 2 Kings 8:9
  So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben–hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
• 2 Kings 13:14
  Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

2 Chronicles

• 2 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 his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
• 2 Chronicles 21:15
  And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
• 2 Chronicles 21:18
  And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
• 2 Chronicles 21:19
  And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.

Psalms

• Psalm 41:3
  The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 5:17
  All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
• Ecclesiastes 6:2
  A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 1:5
  Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
• Isaiah 38:9
  The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
• Isaiah 53:3
  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• Isaiah 53:4
  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 6:7
  As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
• Jeremiah 10:19
  Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

Hosea

• Hosea 5:13
  When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).