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Leviticus 13:19

in Leviticus 13

and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, he must present himself to the priest.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be showed to the priest;

KJV

And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;

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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 a boil appears on someone’s skin

on Leviticus 13:18-28

The same procedure runs twice more for sores that begin from something else, a boil that healed and a burn. The signs looked for stay the same, white hair and a depth below the skin, and the seven days return in both.

This site's exposition

where the boil was

The site matters here. A new mark rising where an old boil had healed is examined by the same signs used in verses 3 and 4. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that such signs could belong to other blemishes, so no one sign decided the case alone.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And in the place of the boil there be a white rising,....

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְהָיָ֞הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • בִּמְק֤וֹםin [the] place of

    bimkomH4725 →401 times

  • הַשְּׁחִין֙the boil

    hashechinH7822 →13 times

  • שְׂאֵ֣תa swelling

    seetH7613 →14 times

  • לְבָנָ֔הwhite

    levanahH3836 →29 times

  • א֥וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • בַהֶ֖רֶתa bright spot

    vaheretH934 →12 times

  • לְבָנָ֣הwhite

    levanahH3836 →29 times

  • אֲדַמְדָּ֑מֶתreddish

    ʾadamdametH125 →6 times

  • וְנִרְאָ֖הand he will present himself

    venirahH7200 →1300 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

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 13:24When there is a burn on someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,2 works

The walk

1 stop

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 13:24

    When there is a burn on someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 3:24

      Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

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

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