Leviticus 13:18
in Leviticus 13When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
KJV
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
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This verse in Leviticus 13
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides (n) you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah (o), it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer: and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever. (n) In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect.
This site's exposition
in the skin thereof, was a boil
on Leviticus 13:18-28
The same procedure runs twice more for sores that begin from something else, a boil that healed and a burn. The signs looked for do not change, white hair and a depth below the skin, and the seven days return in both. The word healed occurs twice in the chapter, at verse 18 and verse 37, and in both places it describes something that got better on its own.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
When old sores, that seemed to be cured, break out again, it is to be feared there is a leprosy in them; such is the danger of those who, having escaped the pollutions of the world, are again entangled therein and overcome.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
In the skin thereof, was a boil - Scheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.
A 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.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבָשָׂ֕ר | uvasar | and flesh | H1320 → | 270 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | if | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יִהְיֶ֥ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בֽוֹ־ | vov- | on <the> it | ||
| בְעֹר֖וֹ | veoro | on skin its | H5785 → | 99 times |
| שְׁחִ֑ין | shechin | a boil | H7822 → | 13 times |
| וְנִרְפָּֽא׃ | venirpa' | and it will be healed | H7495 → | 67 times |
וּבָשָׂ֕רand flesh
uvasarH1320 →270 times
כִּֽי־if
ki-H3588 →4482 times
יִהְיֶ֥הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
בֽוֹ־on <the> it
vov-
בְעֹר֖וֹon skin its
veoroH5785 →99 times
שְׁחִ֑יןa boil
shechinH7822 →13 times
וְנִרְפָּֽא׃and it will be healed
venirpa'H7495 →67 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
it leads to
- Psalms 103:3
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Deuteronomy 7:15
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- Exodus 23:25
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- Psalms 41:3–4
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Psalms 103:3
Through
Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:35
The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 28:35
Through
Exodus 9:9It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:27
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 16:2
So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
- Deuteronomy 28:27
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.