# H2470 חָלָה

חָלָה (châlâh), Strong’s H2470: 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 KJV…

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*châlâh* — 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

KJV: beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat…

Occurs 75 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָלָה vb. be weak, sick
- Qal
- 1 be or become weak
- 2 become sick, ill
- Niph.
- 1 make oneself sick, fig. for strain oneself
- 2 be made sick
- Pi. make sick
- Pu. be made weak
- Hithp. make oneself sick
- Hiph.
- 1 make (sick, i.e.) sore thy smiting
- 2 make sick
- 3 shew (signs of) sickness, become sick
- Hoph. make sick = wounded
- חָלָה vb
- [חָלָה] vb. only Pi. mollify, appease, entreat the favour of

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 48:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=1) — After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and…
- [Exodus 32:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=11) — Moses begged the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought…
- [Deuteronomy 29:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=21) — The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will…
- [Judges 16:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=7) — Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as…
- [Judges 16:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=11) — He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak, and be…
- [Judges 16:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=17) — He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from…
- [1 Samuel 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/13?v=12) — therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of the LORD.’…
- [1 Samuel 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=14) — When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
- [1 Samuel 22:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/22?v=8) — Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty…
- [1 Samuel 30:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/30?v=13) — David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an…