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Leviticus 13:37

in Leviticus 13

If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But if in his eyes the scall be at a stay, and black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

KJV

But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

6 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

an infection on the head or chin

on Leviticus 13:29-37

A plague on the head or in the beard is judged by the colour of hair, yellow against black. The man is shaven everywhere except the patch itself, so the priest keeps the evidence and clears the ground around it.

This site's exposition

black hair has grown in it

Albert Barnes renders the first condition as a spot that does not alter in appearance. Two things are required together, a spot that holds still and new black hair growing in it. The priest then declares what the hair already shows.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But if the scall be in his sight at a stay,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

To lament the calamitous state of human life, which lies exposed to so many grievances. What troops of diseases are we beset with on every side! and they all entered by sin. To give thanks to God if he has never afflicted us with any of these sores: if the constitution is healthful, and the body lively and easy, we are bound to glorify God with our bodies.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Be in his sight at a stay - Or, Does not alter in appearance.

The words behind it

14 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

  • בְּעֵינָיו֩in view his

    beeinavH5869 →887 times

  • עָמַ֨דit has stayed

    ʾamadH5975 →521 times

  • הַנֶּ֜תֶקthe scall

    hanetekH5424 →14 times

  • וְשֵׂעָ֨רand hair

    vesearH8181 →28 times

  • שָׁחֹ֧רblack

    shachorH7838 →

  • צָֽמַח־it has sprouted

    tzamach-H6779 →

  • בּ֛וֹin <the> it

    bo

  • נִרְפָּ֥אit has been healed

    nirpa'H7495 →67 times

  • הַנֶּ֖תֶקthe scall

    hanetekH5424 →14 times

  • טָה֣וֹר[is] pure

    tahorH2889 →94 times

  • ה֑וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְטִהֲר֖וֹand he will declare pure him

    vetiharoH2891 →94 times

  • הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ סthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 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.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 13 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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 (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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