Leviticus 14:55
in Leviticus 14for mildew in clothing or in a house,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house,
KJV
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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This verse in Leviticus 14
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
As a house could not contract any impurity in the sight of God, the "atonement" which the priest was to make for it must either have a reference to the sins of its occupants or to the ceremonial process appointed for its purification, the very same as that observed for a leprous person.
This site's exposition
This is the law for all manner of plague
on Leviticus 14:54-57
These four verses gather chapters 13 and 14 into one law, naming the leprosy of a man, of a garment and of a house, with the scall, the rising, the scab and the bright spot. The two chapters run 116 verses together, longer than the day of atonement chapter and longer than the law of any single offering. Verse 57 states the purpose as teaching when it is unclean, and when it is clean, so the law closes as an instrument of judgment rather than of healing.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And for the leprosy of a garment,.... Of which see Lev 13:47, and of an house; largely treated of in this chapter, Lev 14:34.
The words behind it
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּלְצָרַ֥עַת | uletzaraat | and to [the] serious disease of | H6883 → | 35 times |
| הַבֶּ֖גֶד | habeged | <the> clothing | H899 → | 217 times |
| וְלַבָּֽיִת׃ | velabayit | and to <the> house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
וּלְצָרַ֥עַתand to [the] serious disease of
uletzaraatH6883 →35 times
הַבֶּ֖גֶד<the> clothing
habegedH899 →217 times
וְלַבָּֽיִת׃and to <the> house
velabayitH1004 →2046 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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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) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.