cho.li denotes sickness or illness, including severe bodily disease and suffering described in poetic complaint.

The term chiefly denotes bodily sickness or disease, whether severe, prolonged, or connected with a question of recovery; in poetic and prophetic clauses it also appears amid descriptions of woundedness, grief, and communal distress without requiring a separate lexical sense.

1. Illness and bodily disease · dominant

   The noun names a condition of sickness in narratives of grave physical weakness: in 1 Kings 17:17 the APB renders the son's condition as sickness becoming very strong, and in 2 Chronicles 16:12 it renders Asa's condition as a severe disease in his feet. In 2 Kings 1:2 and 2 Kings 8:8, the singular absolute form occurs in the question whether a sick king will live; Deuteronomy 28:59 uses a plural form for grievous and lasting sicknesses, while Hosea 5:13 places the construct form beside a wound needing healing.

   1 Kings 17:172 Chronicles 16:122 Kings 1:22 Kings 8:8Deuteronomy 28:59Hosea 5:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: In the clearer narrative contexts, the APB presents the condition with terms such as "sickness," "disease," and "illness." In poetic passages it may instead use wording such as "griefs" or "distressing evil"; Those variations do not by themselves establish separate senses.