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# צָרַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6879

**be stricken with leprosy** — used 20 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

be stricken with leprosy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6879/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָרַע: vb.denom. be struck with leprosy, leprous [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6879/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom., only in pass., be struck with leprosy, leprous;— Pt. pass. אִישׁ צָרוּעַ Lv 13:44; elsewhere as subst., = leper, v 45 14:3; Nu 5:2 (all P), Lv 22:4 (H). Pt. מְצֹרָע 2 S 3:29 +, מְצוֹרָע 2 Ch 26:20; pl. מְצֹרָעִים 2 K 7:3, 8; f. מְצֹרַ֫עַת Ex 4:6 +, מְצֹרָ֑עַת Nu 12:10;—leprous, of hand Ex 4:6 (J), of pers. Nu 12:10(×2) (E); 2 K 5:27; 2 Ch 26:20; אֲנָשִׁים מְצֹרָעִים 2 K 7:3; as subst. = leper 2 S 3:29; 2 K 5:1, 11; 7:8; 15:5 = 2 Ch 26:21a; 2 Ch 26:21 b, 23; תּוֹרַת הַמְּצֹרָע Lv 14:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: having a skin disease (4); \[one who\] has a skin disease (2); \[was one who\] had a skin disease (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 14:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.2/#tree)

זֹ֤את תִּֽהְיֶה֙ תּוֹרַ֣ת הַמְּצֹרָ֔ע בְּי֖וֹם טָהֳרָת֑וֹ וְהוּבָ֖א אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* this it.will.be the.legal.\[procedure\] of the.\[one.who\].has.a.serious.skin.disease on the.day his.purification his and he.will.be.brought to the priest

*JPS 1917:* This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest.

[Leviticus 13:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.44/#tree)

אִישׁ־צָר֥וּעַ ה֖וּא טָמֵ֣א ה֑וּא טַמֵּ֧א יְטַמְּאֶ֛נּוּ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן בְּרֹאשׁ֥וֹ נִגְעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.person \[who\].has.a.serious.skin.disease he \[is\].unclean he surely.(declare.unclean) he will.declare.him.unclean the priest \[is\].on head his plague his

*JPS 1917:* he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6879/): 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).