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Leviticus 13:24

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;

KJV

Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

7 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

the raw area of the burn

John Wesley takes the burn literally, a wound from hot iron or burning coals. Albert Barnes reads the verse as skin inflamed by the burn, where the sore has become a glossy spot. The inspection used for the boil follows.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

A hot burning - A burning of fire, by the touch of any hot- iron, or burning coals, which naturally makes an ulcer or sore in which the following spot is.
Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The burning of strife and contention often proves the occasion of the rising up and breaking out of that corruption which witnesses to men's faces that they are unclean. And in this commonly the judgment turned upon a very small matter. If the hair in the scall was black, it was a sign of soundness; if yellow, it was an indication of a leprosy,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The sense of this verse is: “Or if there be flesh of which the skin has been affected by severe inflammation, and the sore of the inflammation has become a glossy spot, somewhat reddish or white.”

The words behind it

15 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

  • בָשָׂ֔רflesh

    vasarH1320 →270 times

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • בְעֹר֖וֹon skin its

    veoroH5785 →99 times

  • מִכְוַת־a burn of

    mikhvat-H4348 →5 times

  • אֵ֑שׁfire

    ʾeshH784 →378 times

  • וְֽהָיְתָ֞הand it will be

    vehayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • מִֽחְיַ֣ת[the] raw spot of

    michyatH4241 →

  • הַמִּכְוָ֗הthe burn

    hamikhvahH4348 →5 times

  • בַּהֶ֛רֶתa bright spot

    baheretH934 →12 times

  • לְבָנָ֥הwhite

    levanahH3836 →29 times

  • אֲדַמְדֶּ֖מֶתreddish

    ʾadamdemetH125 →6 times

  • א֥וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • לְבָנָֽה׃white

    levanahH3836 →29 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

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

    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.

    it leads to

    • Lamentations 2:10

      The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to…

    • Ezekiel 27:31

      They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

    • Micah 1:16

      Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

    • Isaiah 22:12

      On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

    • Isaiah 15:3

      In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

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 Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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