Thematic Bible: Disease, different forms of


Thematic Bible



But Uzziah, with a censer in his hand for burning incense, was enraged; and while he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the altar of incense.

When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession,

“When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or a scab or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest,

Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.


I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.

“My skin turns black on me,
And my bones burn with fever.

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”


Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.”

“When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,


And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.”

For in the case of many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice; and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.


It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.


Their soul abhorred all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.


Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.


The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, falling on his knees before Him and saying, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.