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Leviticus 13:28

in Leviticus 13

But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread on the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest is to pronounce him clean; for it is only the scar from the burn.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread in the skin, but be dim; it is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is the scar of the burning.

KJV

And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

5 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

it is only the scar from the burn

Albert Barnes renders the closing words as the mere hurt of the inflammation. The chapter ends the burn case as it ended the boil case at verse 23. Injury is kept apart from disease.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

“And if the glossy spot continues unchanged and makes no advance in the skin, and is rather indistinct” (see the note at Lev 13:6), “it is the mark of the inflammation, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the (mere) hurt of inflammation.”

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H518 →1069 times

  • תַּחְתֶּיהָ֩in place its

    tachteihaH8478 →505 times

  • תַעֲמֹ֨דit will stay

    taamodH5975 →521 times

  • הַבַּהֶ֜רֶתthe bright spot

    habaheretH934 →12 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • פָשְׂתָ֤הit has spread

    fasetahH6581 →22 times

  • בָעוֹר֙in the skin

    vaorH5785 →99 times

  • וְהִ֣ואand it

    vehiv'H1931 →1879 times

  • כֵהָ֔ה[is] dull

    khehahH3544 →7 times

  • שְׂאֵ֥ת[is] [the] swelling of

    seetH7613 →14 times

  • הַמִּכְוָ֖הthe burn

    hamikhvahH4348 →5 times

  • הִ֑ואit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְטִֽהֲרוֹ֙and he will declare pure him

    vetiharoH2891 →94 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • צָרֶ֥בֶת[is] [the] scar of

    tzarevetH6867 →

  • הַמִּכְוָ֖הthe burn

    hamikhvahH4348 →5 times

  • הִֽוא׃ פit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

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

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

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