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# בַּהֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H934

**brightness** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

brightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/934/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּהֶ֫רֶת: n.f. brightness, bright spot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/934/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brightness, bright spot, of eruption on skin (NH id., Aramaic בַּהְרָא)—בּ׳ abs. Lv 13:2 + 7 times; בֶּהָ֑רֶת Lv 14:56; pl. abs. בֶּהָרוֹת Lv 13:38, 39;—bright spot (sore, scar, etc.), clean or unclean Lv 14:56; following a burn (from fire) Lv 13:24, 25, 26, 28; possible beginning of leprosy Lv 13:2, 4, 19, 23; but possibly a (passing) eruption מִסְפַּחַת v 6; or due to a boil שְׁחִין v 19, 23;—due to בֹּהַק (q.v.) Lv 13:38, 39.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: spot (5); a bright spot (3); bright spots (3).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 14:56](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.56/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.56/#tree)

וְלַשְׂאֵ֥ת וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת וְלַבֶּהָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and to (the) swelling and to.(the) flaking skin and to.(the) bright spot

*JPS 1917:* and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;

[Leviticus 13:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.38/#tree)

וְאִישׁ֙ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְעוֹר־בְּשָׂרָ֖ם בֶּהָרֹ֑ת בֶּהָרֹ֖ת לְבָנֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and a.man or a.woman (dm) it.will.be on the.skin their.flesh their bright.spots bright.spots white

*JPS 1917:* And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/934.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/934/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).