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Leviticus 13:14

in Leviticus 13

But whenever raw flesh appears on someone, he will be unclean.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.

KJV

But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

5 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 anyone develops a skin disease

on Leviticus 13:9-17

A man covered from head to foot is pronounced clean at verse 13, and raw flesh appearing on him makes him unclean at verse 14. What defiles is the living sore, whatever the extent of the whiteness.

This site's exposition

whenever raw flesh appears

John Gill places the raw flesh between or among the white patches. John Wesley explains why that matters. A body of one colour showed soundness, and a mixture of white and living flesh was the sign of disease.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

In it - That is in the place where the appearance of leprosy was, when the flesh was partly changed into a whiter colour, and partly kept its natural colour, this variety of colours was an evidence of the leprosy, as one and the same colour continuing, was a sign of soundness.
But when raw flesh appeareth in him,.... Between the white spots, scabs, or swellings, or in the midst of them: he shall be unclean; be pronounced unclean, and be subject to all the prescriptions of the law concerning lepers.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • וּבְי֨וֹםand on [the] day

    uveyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הֵרָא֥וֹתappears

    heraotH7200 →1300 times

  • בּ֛וֹon <the> him

    bo

  • בָּשָׂ֥רflesh

    basarH1320 →270 times

  • חַ֖יliving

    chaiH2416 →498 times

  • יִטְמָֽא׃he will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
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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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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