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Leviticus 13:30

in Leviticus 13

the priest shall examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or chin.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

then the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scall, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

KJV

Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Scall - As this is the name for another disease not allied to the leprosy, it would have been better to retain the original word נתק netheq. It is a true elephantiasis, and is recognized by modern writers under the name of the Fox mange.

This site's exposition

a plague upon the head or the beard

on Leviticus 13:29-37

A plague on the head or in the beard is judged by the colour of hair, yellow against black. The man is shaven everywhere except the patch itself, so the priest keeps the evidence and clears the ground around it. Black hair growing up in it at verse 37 is the sign that the thing is healed, and the priest pronounces him clean.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

A yellow, thin hair - The leprosy in the body turned the hair white, in the head or beard it turned it yellow. And if a man's hair was yellow before, this might easily be distinguished from the rest, either by the thinness or smallness of it, or by its peculiar kind of yellow, for there are divers kinds of the same colour manifestly differing from one another.
Then the priest shall see the plague,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

To lament the calamitous state of human life, which lies exposed to so many grievances. What troops of diseases are we beset with on every side! and they all entered by sin. To give thanks to God if he has never afflicted us with any of these sores: if the constitution is healthful, and the body lively and easy, we are bound to glorify God with our bodies.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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

23 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְרָאָ֨הand he will see

    veraahH7200 →1300 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֜ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַנֶּ֗גַעthe plague

    hanega'H5061 →78 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֤הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • מַרְאֵ֙הוּ֙appearance its

    marehuH4758 →103 times

  • עָמֹ֣ק[is] deep

    ʾamokH6013 →17 times

  • מִן־more than

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָע֔וֹרthe skin

    haorH5785 →99 times

  • וּב֛וֹand [is] in <the> it

    uvo

  • שֵׂעָ֥רhair

    searH8181 →28 times

  • צָהֹ֖בyellow

    tzahoH6669 →3 times

  • דָּ֑קthin

    dakH1851 →14 times

  • וְטִמֵּ֨אand he will declare unclean

    vetime'H2930 →162 times

  • אֹת֤וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • הַכֹּהֵן֙the priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • נֶ֣תֶק[is] a scall

    netekH5424 →14 times

  • ה֔וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • צָרַ֧עַת[is] a serious skin disease of

    tzaraatH6883 →35 times

  • הָרֹ֛אשׁthe head

    haroshH7218 →599 times

  • א֥וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • הַזָּקָ֖ןthe beard

    hazakanH2206 →19 times

  • הֽוּא׃it

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Leviticus 14:54

    This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 14:32

      This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”

    • Leviticus 15:32

      This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,

    • Numbers 5:29

      This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

    • Leviticus 6:25

      “Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is…

    • Leviticus 6:9

      “Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 13 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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 (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.

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