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νόσος
nósos · Greek · Strong's G3554 · 11 occurrences
The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “disease”
What it means
a malady (rarely figuratively, of moral disability)
of uncertain affinity;
How the KJV renders it
disease, infirmity, sickness
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“disease”
also renders asthéneia (G769), malakía (G3119), chŏlîy (H2483), madveh (H4064), machăleh (H4245), tachălûwʼ (H8463)
“infirmity”
“sickness”
also renders asthéneia (G769), machăleh (H4245)
Answers that weigh this word
- Does the Bible promise physical healing to every believer?
- What does 'by his stripes we are healed' (Isaiah 53:5) mean?
- Does James 5:14-15 promise healing through prayer and anointing?
- Did the gift of healing continue after the apostles?
- Why did Paul leave Trophimus sick and tell Timothy to take wine for his stomach?
Where it appears
11 occurrences in the Greek text.
Acts 19:12 · N-APF
so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
Luke 4:40 · N-DPF
When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Luke 6:17 · N-GPF
He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,
Luke 7:21 · N-GPF
In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
Luke 9:1 · N-APF
He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
Matthew 4:23 · N-ASF
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Matthew 4:24 N-DPFMatthew 8:17 N-APFMatthew 9:35 N-ASFMatthew 10:1 N-ASFMark 1:34 N-DPF
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Greek text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.