[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/leper/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) / leper # leper noun (a leper, lepers) «leper» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A person who has leprosy, an illness of the skin and nerves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#m1) 2. (Bible) In Bible times lepers had to live apart and call out «Unclean!»; Jesus touched and healed lepers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#m2) 3. (figurative) A person that others avoid or reject: «He was treated like a leper.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#m3) ### In the lessons In religion lessons Jesus healing ten lepers, with only one coming back to say thank you, teaches gratitude; touching the leper shows compassion for outcasts. Today people prefer to say «a person with leprosy», because «leper» can be hurtful. Phrases: «treated like a leper», «the ten lepers», «leper colony». ### Examples - Jesus healed ten lepers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x1) - Only one leper came back to thank Jesus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x2) - Jesus touched the leper, and he was healed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x3) - In old times lepers lived outside the town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x4) - After the argument he felt like a leper at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x5) - Father Damien worked in a leper colony. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x6) - This king was a leper, and all his doctors had been unable to cure him, when a very clever physician came to his court. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x7) ### Note Countable. The illness is leprosy. Today «a person with leprosy» is kinder and more correct. Do not confuse with «leopard» (big spotted cat). ## In Jewish tradition A leper was brought to the priest for examination and, if found unclean, lived outside the camp until healed and cleansed. **Interpretation.** The Rabbis taught that this disease came as a sign for evil speech, and the priest, not a doctor, judged it. ### Examples - This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest. (Torah LEV.14.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x1) - And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; (Torah LEV.14.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x2) - What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. (Torah LEV.22.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x3) - And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. (Prophets 2KI.15.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x4) - The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.' And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. (Prophets 2KI.5.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x5) - So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said: 'He is a leper'; and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. (Writings 2CH.26.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x6) ### Note Countable. The illness is leprosy. Today «a person with leprosy» is kinder and more correct. Do not confuse with «leopard» (big spotted cat). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «leper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«leper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/leper.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «leper» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«leper» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/leper.html) on Mova free.