'Sick' in the Bible
Then Nathan went [back] to his home.And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s widow bore to David, and he was very sick.
Amnon was so frustrated because of his [half-] sister Tamar that he made himself sick, for she was a virgin, and Amnon thought it impossible for him to do anything to her.
Jonadab said to him, “Go to bed and pretend you are sick; and when your father [David] comes to see you, say to him, ‘Just let my sister Tamar come and serve me food, and let her prepare it in my sight, so that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”
So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Cast (676 instances)
- Crazy (12 instances)
- Demented (2 instances)
- Disgusted (13 instances)
- Distracted (6 instances)
- Disturbed (49 instances)
- Ill (157 instances)
- Mad (32 instances)
- Nauseated (2 instances)
- Pale (19 instances)
- Purge (41 instances)
- Sick (138 instances)
- Spew (6 instances)
- Spue (4 instances)
- Unbalanced (3 instances)
- Vomit (15 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
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