Leviticus 13:27
in Leviticus 13On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if it has spread further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection.
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ASV
and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
KJV
And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
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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 has spread further on the skin
The seventh day decides the burn case as it decided the boil case at verse 22. Spreading is the sign that settles it. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown observe that the priest pronounced a true case only when the marks of the disease concurred.
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The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְרָאָ֥הוּ | veraahu | and he will see it | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| הַכֹּהֵ֖ן | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| בַּיּ֣וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | <if> | H518 → | 1069 times |
| פָּשֹׂ֤ה | pasoh | certainly [if] <to spread> | H6581 → | 22 times |
| תִפְשֶׂה֙ | tifseh | it will spread | H6581 → | 22 times |
| בָּע֔וֹר | baor | in the skin | H5785 → | 99 times |
| וְטִמֵּ֤א | vetime' | and he will declare unclean | H2930 → | 162 times |
| הַכֹּהֵן֙ | hakohen | the priest | H3548 → | 750 times |
| אֹת֔וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נֶ֥גַע | nega' | [is] a plague of | H5061 → | 78 times |
| צָרַ֖עַת | tzaraat | a serious skin disease | H6883 → | 35 times |
| הִֽוא׃ | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְרָאָ֥הוּand he will see it
veraahuH7200 →1300 times
הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑י<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
אִם־<if>
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
פָּשֹׂ֤הcertainly [if] <to spread>
pasohH6581 →22 times
תִפְשֶׂה֙it will spread
tifsehH6581 →22 times
בָּע֔וֹרin the skin
baorH5785 →99 times
וְטִמֵּ֤אand he will declare unclean
vetime'H2930 →162 times
הַכֹּהֵן֙the priest
hakohenH3548 →750 times
אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> him
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
נֶ֥גַע[is] a plague of
nega'H5061 →78 times
צָרַ֖עַתa serious skin disease
tzaraatH6883 →35 times
הִֽוא׃it
hi'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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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.