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Strong's H2470 · Hebrew

chalah

khaw-law'

a primitive root (compare 2342, 2470, 2490); properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat


Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H2470a

H2470a חָלָה be weak , sick . . be or become weak . become sick , ill . . make oneself sick , fig. for strain oneself . be made sick . make sick . be made weak . make oneself sick . . make ( sick , i.e.) sore thy smiting . make sick . shew (signs of) sickness , become sick . make sick = wounded H2470b חָלָה only Pi . mollify , appease , entreat the favour of

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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