Leviticus 13:14
in Leviticus 13But whenever raw flesh appears on someone, he will be unclean.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
KJV
But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
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This verse in Leviticus 13
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Several of these characteristics, taken separately, belong to other blemishes of the skin as well; so that none of them was to be taken alone, and it was only when the whole of them concurred that the Jewish priest, in his capacity of physician, was to pronounce the disease a malignant leprosy.
This site's exposition
When the plague of leprosy is in a man
on Leviticus 13:9-17
The rule here runs the opposite way to what a reader expects. A man covered with it from his head even to his foot is pronounced clean at verse 13, and one patch of raw flesh appearing in him makes him unclean at verse 14. What defiles is the living sore rather than the extent of the whiteness, and the chapter states the rule twice without explaining it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
In it - That is in the place where the appearance of leprosy was, when the flesh was partly changed into a whiter colour, and partly kept its natural colour, this variety of colours was an evidence of the leprosy, as one and the same colour continuing, was a sign of soundness.
But when raw flesh appeareth in him,.... Between the white spots, scabs, or swellings, or in the midst of them: he shall be unclean; be pronounced unclean, and be subject to all the prescriptions of the law concerning lepers.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְי֨וֹם | uveyom | and on [the] day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הֵרָא֥וֹת | heraot | appears | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| בּ֛וֹ | bo | on <the> him | ||
| בָּשָׂ֥ר | basar | flesh | H1320 → | 270 times |
| חַ֖י | chai | living | H2416 → | 498 times |
| יִטְמָֽא׃ | yitma' | he will be unclean | H2930 → | 162 times |
וּבְי֨וֹםand on [the] day
uveyomH3117 →2304 times
הֵרָא֥וֹתappears
heraotH7200 →1300 times
בּ֛וֹon <the> him
bo
בָּשָׂ֥רflesh
basarH1320 →270 times
חַ֖יliving
chaiH2416 →498 times
יִטְמָֽא׃he will be unclean
yitma'H2930 →162 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.