חָלָא châlâʼ — to be sick
Translated in the KJV as be diseased.
a primitive root (compare H2470); to be sick.
châlâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיֶּחֱלֶ֣א 2Chr 16:12 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
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.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›