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In the biblical context, the term "diseased" refers to individuals afflicted with various physical ailments, often seen as manifestations of sin, divine judgment, or opportunities for God's glory to be revealed. The Bible provides numerous accounts of diseases and their significance within the spiritual and communal life of the Israelites and early Christians.

Old Testament Context

In the Old Testament, disease is frequently associated with divine judgment or a consequence of disobedience to God's commandments. For instance, in Deuteronomy 28:60-61, God warns the Israelites of the diseases He will bring upon them if they fail to obey His laws: "He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed."

Leviticus chapters 13 and 14 provide detailed laws concerning leprosy, a term used broadly in the Bible to describe various skin diseases. These chapters outline the procedures for diagnosing and isolating those afflicted, emphasizing the need for ritual purity and the role of the priest in declaring a person clean or unclean.

New Testament Context

In the New Testament, Jesus' ministry is marked by numerous healings, demonstrating His authority over disease and His compassion for the afflicted. Matthew 4:24 states, "News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them."

The healing of the sick serves as a testament to Jesus' divine nature and the inauguration of the Kingdom of God. In John 9:1-3, Jesus heals a man born blind, explaining that the man's condition was not due to sin but so "that the works of God might be displayed in him."

Spiritual Implications

Diseases in the Bible often carry spiritual implications, serving as reminders of human frailty and the need for reliance on God. James 5:14-15 encourages believers to seek spiritual and physical healing through prayer and the anointing of oil by the elders: "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick."

Eschatological Hope

The Bible also offers hope for a future free from disease and suffering. Revelation 21:4 promises a time when "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away." This eschatological vision underscores the ultimate redemption and restoration that God will bring to His creation.

Throughout Scripture, the presence of disease serves as a multifaceted symbol of human vulnerability, divine judgment, and the redemptive power of God. The biblical narrative consistently points to God's sovereignty over illness and His desire for the holistic well-being of His people.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Disease.

2. (a.) Afflicted with disease.

Greek

3552. noseo -- to be sick
... to be sick. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: noseo Phonetic Spelling:
(nos-eh'-o) Short Definition: I am diseased Definition: I am diseased, hence of ...
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770. astheneo -- to be weak, feeble
... be diseased, impotent, sick, weak. From asthenes; to be feeble (in any sense) --
be diseased, impotent folk (man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak. ...
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131. haimorroeo -- to lose blood
... diseased with an issue of blood. From haima and rheo; to flow blood, ie Have a
hoemorrhage -- diseased with an issue of blood. see GREEK haima. see GREEK rheo. ...
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4190. poneros -- toilsome, bad
... as well as from sapros, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively,
calamitous; also (passively) ill, ie Diseased; but especially (morally ...
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2560. kakos -- badly
... amiss, badly, grievously. From kakos; badly (physically or morally) -- amiss, diseased,
evil, grievously, miserably, sick, sore. see GREEK kakos. ...
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4662. skolekobrotos -- eaten by worms
... eaten of worms. From skolex and a derivative of bibrosko; worm-eaten, ie Diseased
with maggots -- eaten of worms. see GREEK skolex. see GREEK bibrosko. ...
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2192. echo -- to have, hold
... contiuity, relation, or condition) -- be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, +
begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2456. chala -- to be sick or diseased
... 2455, 2456. chala. 2457 . to be sick or diseased. Transliteration: chala Phonetic
Spelling: (khaw-law') Short Definition: diseased. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2470. chalah -- to be weak or sick
... law') Short Definition: beseech. beseech, be diseased, put to grief, be
grieved, be grievous, infirmity A primitive root (compare ...
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2470a. chalah -- to be weak or sick
... afflicted (1), am severely wounded (2), became ill (1), became sick (4),
became...ill (3), become ill (1), become weak (3), been sick (2), diseased (2), ...
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Library

But they with whom we Argue have Undoubtedly a Right to Select ...
... I. The narrative of Tacitus is delivered in these terms: "One of the common people
of Alexandria, known to be diseased in his eyes, by the admonition of the ...
/.../paley/evidences of christianity/chapter ii but they with.htm

Blemished Offerings
... The Prophet has been vehemently rebuking a characteristic mean practice of the priests,
who were offering maimed and diseased animals in sacrifice. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/blemished offerings.htm

Galatians v. 16, 17
... As long as these two natures thus struggle within him, the man is sick; as
soon as the diseased nature prevails, the man sinks and dies. ...
/.../arnold/the christian life/lecture viii galatians v 16.htm

The Casting Out of Devils.
... "But we do not even know that there are such spirits, and we do know that a diseased
brain is sufficient to account for the worst of the phenomena recorded." I ...
/.../macdonald/miracles of our lord/vii the casting out of.htm

The Beatific vision
... Our corrupt and diseased nature (and corrupt and diseased it is, as we shall surely
find, as soon as we begin to try to do right) will quench that heavenly ...
/.../kingsley/the good news of god/sermon i the beatific vision.htm

The Office of the Instructor.
... As, then, for those of us who are diseased in body a physician is required, so also
those who are diseased in soul require a p??dagogue to cure our maladies ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter i the office of.htm

Moral Depravity.
... that the powers of the mind, either in substance, or in consequence of their connection
with, and dependence upon, the body, are in a diseased, lapsed, fallen ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxii moral depravity.htm

Of one who was Lately Cured of a Disease in his Eye at the Relics ...
... the church and opened the box of relics, to give some part of them to a friend who
asked for it, and it happened that the youth who had the diseased eye was ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxxii of one who.htm

Preface. --It is Useless to Attempt to Benefit those who Will Not
... commendable, or even free from reproach in the eyes of the many; seeing that the
gratuitous waste of many prepared drugs on the incurably-diseased produces no ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 1 preface it is useless.htm

Dissolving views.
... man, the casting out amid a painful scene; afterwards the healing of Peter's
mother-in-law, and then at sun-setting the great crowd of diseased and demonized ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/dissolving views.htm

Thesaurus

Diseased (39 Occurrences)
...Diseased (39 Occurrences). ... Mark 1:32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought
unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. ...
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Morbid (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased;
sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the ...
/m/morbid.htm - 7k

Diseases (38 Occurrences)
... people of all ages, but especially children, and whose germs are carried from eye
to eye by the flies, which are allowed to walk freely over the diseased eyes. ...
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Canker (4 Occurrences)
... 9. (vi) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt;
to become venomous. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CANKER. kan'-ker. ...
/c/canker.htm - 9k

Single (65 Occurrences)
... the meaning "simple." But in view of the context, most commentators take haplous
here as meaning "normal," "healthy," and poneros as "diseased," so rendering ...
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Apply (19 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as,
to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of ...
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Sees (135 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:10 And if the priest sees that there is a white growth on the skin,
and the hair is turned white, and there is diseased flesh in the growth, (BBE). ...
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Disease (213 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness;
to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. Int. ...
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Wasted (106 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). Deuteronomy 28:28 He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes
blind, and your hearts wasted with fear: (BBE). Deuteronomy ...
/w/wasted.htm - 35k

Leper (34 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:15 And when the priest sees the diseased flesh he will say that he
is unclean; the diseased flesh is unclean, he is a leper. (BBE). ...
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Resources

How do we bring blemished offerings to God (Malachi 1:8)? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that we live in a fallen world? | GotQuestions.org

What is hyssop? What was hyssop used for in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Diseased: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Diseased (39 Occurrences)

Matthew 9:20
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
(KJV WBS)

Matthew 14:35
And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
(KJV WBS)

Mark 1:32
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Mark 3:10
For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.
(BBE)

John 6:2
And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
(KJV WBS RSV)

Leviticus 13:3
and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:4
If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:6
The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:10
And if the priest sees that there is a white growth on the skin, and the hair is turned white, and there is diseased flesh in the growth,
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:12
And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see,
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:14
But whenever diseased flesh is seen on him, he will be unclean.
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:15
And when the priest sees the diseased flesh he will say that he is unclean; the diseased flesh is unclean, he is a leper.
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:16
Or if the diseased flesh is turned again and changed to white then he is to come to the priest,
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:17
And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:22
And if it is increasing on the skin, the priest will say that he is unclean: it is a disease.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:24
Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white,
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:30
Then the priest is to see the diseased place: and if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and if there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest will say that he is unclean: he has the mark of the leper's disease on his head or in the hair of his chin.
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:31
And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days:
(BBE)

Leviticus 13:33
Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more:
(BBE NIV)

Leviticus 13:42
But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:43
Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:52
And the clothing, or the wool or linen material, or anything of leather in which is the disease, is to be burned: for the disease is biting into it; let it be burned in the fire.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 13:55
And if, after the mark has been washed, the priest sees that the colour of it is not changed and it is not increased, it is to be burned in the fire: the disease is working in it, though the damage may be inside or outside.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 14:2
"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,
(See NIV)

Leviticus 21:20
Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 28:28
He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:
(BBE)

1 Samuel 5:12
And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 3:29
May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!
(BBE)

1 Kings 15:23
Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 16:12
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn't seek Yahweh, but to the physicians.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 1:5
Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart 'is' sick.
(YLT)

Isaiah 1:6
The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
(BBE)

Isaiah 38:21
And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.
(BBE)

Isaiah 53:4
But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
(BBE YLT)

Ezekiel 34:4
You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS)

Ezekiel 34:21
Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Malachi 1:8
When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies.
(See NIV)

Malachi 1:13
You say also,'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Diseased

Related Terms

Divers (36 Occurrences)

Fever (13 Occurrences)

Various (52 Occurrences)

Physician (6 Occurrences)

Pains (59 Occurrences)

Cured (62 Occurrences)

Eyes (6285 Occurrences)

Different (87 Occurrences)

Diverse (15 Occurrences)