Leviticus 13:24
in Leviticus 13When there is a burn on someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,
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ASV
Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;
KJV
Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
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This verse in Leviticus 13
Commentary
6 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
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 Awakening3 voices
A hot burning - A burning of fire, by the touch of any hot- iron, or burning coals, which naturally makes an ulcer or sore in which the following spot is.
Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning,....
The burning of strife and contention often proves the occasion of the rising up and breaking out of that corruption which witnesses to men's faces that they are unclean. And in this commonly the judgment turned upon a very small matter. If the hair in the scall was black, it was a sign of soundness; if yellow, it was an indication of a leprosy,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The sense of this verse is: “Or if there be flesh of which the skin has been affected by severe inflammation, and the sore of the inflammation has become a glossy spot, somewhat reddish or white.”
The words behind it
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| א֣וֹ | ʾo | or | H176 → | 321 times |
| בָשָׂ֔ר | vasar | flesh | H1320 → | 270 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | if | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יִהְיֶ֥ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בְעֹר֖וֹ | veoro | on skin its | H5785 → | 99 times |
| מִכְוַת־ | mikhvat- | a burn of | H4348 → | 5 times |
| אֵ֑שׁ | ʾesh | fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה | vehayetah | and it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| מִֽחְיַ֣ת | michyat | [the] raw spot of | H4241 → | |
| הַמִּכְוָ֗ה | hamikhvah | the burn | H4348 → | 5 times |
| בַּהֶ֛רֶת | baheret | a bright spot | H934 → | 12 times |
| לְבָנָ֥ה | levanah | white | H3836 → | 29 times |
| אֲדַמְדֶּ֖מֶת | ʾadamdemet | reddish | H125 → | 6 times |
| א֥וֹ | ʾo | or | H176 → | 321 times |
| לְבָנָֽה׃ | levanah | white | H3836 → | 29 times |
א֣וֹor
ʾoH176 →321 times
בָשָׂ֔רflesh
vasarH1320 →270 times
כִּֽי־if
ki-H3588 →4482 times
יִהְיֶ֥הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
בְעֹר֖וֹon skin its
veoroH5785 →99 times
מִכְוַת־a burn of
mikhvat-H4348 →5 times
אֵ֑שׁfire
ʾeshH784 →378 times
וְֽהָיְתָ֞הand it will be
vehayetahH1961 →3559 times
מִֽחְיַ֣ת[the] raw spot of
michyatH4241 →
הַמִּכְוָ֗הthe burn
hamikhvahH4348 →5 times
בַּהֶ֛רֶתa bright spot
baheretH934 →12 times
לְבָנָ֥הwhite
levanahH3836 →29 times
אֲדַמְדֶּ֖מֶתreddish
ʾadamdemetH125 →6 times
א֥וֹor
ʾoH176 →321 times
לְבָנָֽה׃white
levanahH3836 →29 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Isaiah 3:24Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
it leads to
- Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to…
- Ezekiel 27:31
They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.
- Micah 1:16
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
- Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Isaiah 15:3
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- Lamentations 2:10
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About Leviticus

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
