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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.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

חָלָאchâlâʼ · khaw-law'
H2456 · Hebrew
Definition
to be sick
Derivation
a primitive root (compare H2470 (חָלָה));
KJV renderings
be diseased.
Grammar
  • וַ — conjunction
  • יֶּחֱלֶ֣א — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage
Occurs 1 times in the Hebrew Bible.

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חָלָא here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.