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Leviticus 14:56

in Leviticus 14

and for a swelling, rash, or spot,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;

KJV

And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:

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This verse in Leviticus 14

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

As a house could not contract any impurity in the sight of God, the "atonement" which the priest was to make for it must either have a reference to the sins of its occupants or to the ceremonial process appointed for its purification, the very same as that observed for a leprous person.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot. Which were three sorts of leprosy in the skin of man's flesh; See Gill on Lev 13:2.

The words behind it

3 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.

  • וְלַשְׂאֵ֥תand to <the> swelling

    velasetH7613 →14 times

  • וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַתand to <the> flaking skin

    velassapachatH5597 →

  • וְלַבֶּהָֽרֶת׃and to <the> bright spot

    velabeharetH934 →12 times

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

Related verses

1 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

    Leviticus 13:2

    “When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that could become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 24:8

      In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

    • Leviticus 14:3

      The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,

    • Numbers 12:10

      As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,

    • 2 Chronicles 26:19–21

      Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy…

    • Luke 17:14

      When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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