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Leviticus 13:40

in Leviticus 13

Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

KJV

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

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This verse in Leviticus 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Elisha was jeered for his bald head ( 2 Kings ii. 23 ); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any time it did appear in a bald head: The plague is in his head, he is utterly unclean,

This site's exposition

has white spots on the skin

on Leviticus 13:38-44

Three conditions are named here only to be cleared: dull white spots, a bald head and a bald forehead. The chapter says he is still clean twice in two verses. The procedure clears people as well as excluding them.

This site's exposition

he is still clean

Hair loss by itself leaves a man clean. Matthew Henry points to Elisha at 2 Kings 2:23, mocked for his bald head by the children of Bethel. Henry lays the fault on the mockers, since the law had declared baldness clean.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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The words behind it

8 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.

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

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Galatians 4:13You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.3 worksRomans 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.2 worksRomans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.2 worksAmos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.2 worksLeviticus 13:41Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.2 works2 Kings 2:23From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Song of Solomon 5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.2 worksIsaiah 15:2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.2 worksRomans 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.2 works

The walk

8 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

    Romans 6:12

    Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 5:16

      So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

    • Romans 6:16

      Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to…

    • Galatians 5:24

      Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    • Romans 8:13

      For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

    • 1 John 2:15–17

      Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • Through

    Romans 8:10

    But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 2:20

      I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…

    • Ephesians 3:17

      so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

    • 2 Corinthians 5:21

      God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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