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# נֶתֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5424

**scab** — used 14 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

scab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5424/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫תֶק: n.m. scab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5424/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 13:32 scab, an eruption of skin, on head or in beard, causing suspicion of leprosy (lit. a tearing off, i.e. what one is inclined to scratch or tear away, cf. scabies from scabere, Krätze from kratzen, etc., v. Di Lv 13:30);—נ׳ abs. Lv 13:30, 32(×2), 33, 34(×2), 35, 36, 37(×2); נָתֶ֑ק 14:54; נֶגַע הַנֶּתֶק 13:31(×2) (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: scall (10); the scall (3); \[is\] a scall (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.35/#tree)

וְאִם־פָּשֹׂ֥ה יִפְשֶׂ֛ה הַנֶּ֖תֶק בָּע֑וֹר אַחֲרֵ֖י טָהֳרָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and if truly.(spread) it.will.spread the scall in the skin after purification his

*JPS 1917:* But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing,

[Leviticus 14:54](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.54/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.54/#tree)

זֹ֖את הַתּוֹרָ֑ה לְכָל־נֶ֥גַע הַצָּרַ֖עַת וְלַנָּֽתֶק׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the legal.\[procedure\] to every (the).plague of.(the) serious.skin.disease and to (the) scall

*JPS 1917:* This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5424.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5424/): 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).