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# מִסְפַּחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4556

**scruf** — used 3 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

scruf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4556/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִסְפַּ֫חַת²: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4556/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—abs. Lv 13:6, 7, 8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: rash (2); \[is\] a skin rash (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.8/#tree)

וְרָאָה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּשְׂתָ֥ה הַמִּסְפַּ֖חַת בָּע֑וֹר וְטִמְּא֥וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן צָרַ֥עַת הִֽוא׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.will.see the priest and there! it.has.spread the.skin rash in the skin and he will.declare.him.unclean the priest \[is\].a.serious.skin.disease it

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.

[Leviticus 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.7/#tree)

וְאִם־פָּשֹׂ֨ה תִפְשֶׂ֤ה הַמִּסְפַּ֙חַת֙ בָּע֔וֹר אַחֲרֵ֧י הֵרָאֹת֛וֹ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵ֖ן לְטָהֳרָת֑וֹ וְנִרְאָ֥ה שֵׁנִ֖ית אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and if truly.(spread) it.will.spread the.skin rash in the skin after he has.presented.himself to the priest for purification his and he.will.present.himself a.second.\[time\] to the priest

*JPS 1917:* But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4556.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4556/): 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).