Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

Leviticus 13:16

in Leviticus 13

But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, then he shall come unto the priest;

KJV

Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;

⋯

This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

4 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

he must go to the priest

John Gill reads the change as the red of raw flesh giving way to white, the colour of the rest of the swelling. The man still returns to the priest. The verdict belongs to the priest alone, even when the change is plain to see.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Or if the raw flesh turn again,.... Changes its colour, from redness, which is in raw flesh: and be changed unto white: and does not look ruddy as flesh in common does, nor red and fiery, as raw and proud flesh, but is white, of the same colour with the swelling or scab: he shall come unto the priest; again, and show himself, even though he was before by him pronounced clean.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • א֣וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • כִ֥יif

    khiH3588 →4482 times

  • יָשׁ֛וּבit will return

    yashuvH7725 →1056 times

  • הַבָּשָׂ֥רthe flesh

    habasarH1320 →270 times

  • הַחַ֖י<the> living

    hachaiH2416 →498 times

  • וְנֶהְפַּ֣ךְand it will be turned

    venehpakhH2015 →94 times

  • לְלָבָ֑ןto white

    lelavanH3836 →29 times

  • וּבָ֖אand he will go

    uva'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.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. 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.

Read on in Leviticus 13 →