Leviticus 13:22
in Leviticus 13If it spreads any further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
KJV
And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
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This verse in Leviticus 13
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
If it spreads any further on the skin
After the week of waiting, spreading alone decides the case. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown hold that the signs of the disease were weighed together. Here the growth of the spot over seven days is counted as enough.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And if it spread much abroad in the skin,....
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאִם־ | veim- | and if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| פָּשֹׂ֥ה | pasoh | certainly <to spread> | H6581 → | 22 times |
| תִפְשֶׂ֖ה | tifseh | it will spread | H6581 → | 22 times |
| בָּע֑וֹר | baor | in the skin | H5785 → | 99 times |
| וְטִמֵּ֧א | vetime' | and he will declare unclean | H2930 → | 162 times |
| הַכֹּהֵ֛ן | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| אֹת֖וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נֶ֥גַע | nega' | [is] a plague | H5061 → | 78 times |
| הִֽוא׃ | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְאִם־and if
veim-H518 →1069 times
פָּשֹׂ֥הcertainly <to spread>
pasohH6581 →22 times
תִפְשֶׂ֖הit will spread
tifsehH6581 →22 times
בָּע֑וֹרin the skin
baorH5785 →99 times
וְטִמֵּ֧אand he will declare unclean
vetime'H2930 →162 times
הַכֹּהֵ֛ןthe priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> him
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
נֶ֥גַע[is] a plague
nega'H5061 →78 times
הִֽוא׃it
hi'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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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.