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# צָרַעַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6883

**leprosy** — used 35 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

leprosy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6883/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָרַ֫עַת: n.f. leprosy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6883/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. leprosy;—abs. צ׳ Dt 24:8 +, צָרָ֑עַת Lv 13:2 +; cstr. צָרַ֫עַת 2 K 5:27 +; sf. צָרַעְתּוֹ 2 K 5:3, 6, 7;—leprosy 2 K 5:3, 6, 7, 27; 2 Ch 26:19; elsewhere only in laws: נֶגַע צ׳ Dt 24:8, and Lv 13, 14 (P; 29 times): תּוֹרַת הַצּ׳ 14:57; specif. of human disease (as above) נֶגַע צ׳ Lv 13:2 + 8 times; without נ׳ 13:8 + 10 times leprosy in a garment 13:47, 49, 51, 52, 59 (תּוֹרַת נֶגַע צ׳ בֶּגֶד). in house 14:34 (נֶגַע צ׳), v 44; house or garment v 55.—Exact meaning of b. and c. dub., perhaps some fungus or mould; v. especially Di Dr-Wh Baen.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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: of a serious skin disease (8); \[is\] a serious skin disease (6); skin disease (4).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 14:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.55/#tree)

וּלְצָרַ֥עַת הַבֶּ֖גֶד וְלַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and to.(the) serious.disease of.(the) clothing and to (the) house

*JPS 1917:* and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house;

[Leviticus 13:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.9/#tree)

נֶ֣גַע צָרַ֔עַת כִּ֥י תִהְיֶ֖ה בְּאָדָ֑ם וְהוּבָ֖א אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* a.plague of.a.serious.skin.disease (dm) it.will.be on anyone and he.will.be.brought to the priest

*JPS 1917:* When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6883.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6883/): 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).