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Leviticus 13:9

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When anyone develops a skin disease, he must be brought to the priest.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;

KJV

When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

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.

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.

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The words behind it

8 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.

  • נֶ֣גַעa plague of

    nega'H5061 →78 times

  • צָרַ֔עַתa serious skin disease

    tzaraatH6883 →35 times

  • כִּ֥יif

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תִהְיֶ֖הit will be

    tihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • בְּאָדָ֑םon anyone

    beadamH120 →551 times

  • וְהוּבָ֖אand he will be brought

    vehuva'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַכֹּהֵֽן׃the priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

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

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 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) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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