WASTING DISEASE, consumption — a sickness named from a root meaning to waste away, and first in the list of seven at Deuteronomy 28:22. ⭐ The noun stands in two verses of the Hebrew Bible, and the other is the parallel curse of Leviticus 26:16 (already on these pages), where it comes paired with the same second word, qaddachat, fever — wasting disease and fever, that consume the eyes and cause the soul to languish. ⚠ The NWT 1984 and TLB read ‘tuberculosis’, a modern diagnosis for a word no one can diagnose; the KJV ‘a consumption’, the NIV ‘wasting disease’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «tisis». → first discussed at Deut 28:22