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Leviticus 13

Lev. 13:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then the priest
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
shall consider
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
: and, behold, if the leprosy
tsara`ath (Hebrew #6883)
leprosy
KJV usage: leprosy.
Pronounce: tsaw-rah'-ath
Origin: from 6879
have covered
kacah (Hebrew #3680)
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
KJV usage: clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
Pronounce: kaw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
all his flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
, he shall pronounce him clean
taher (Hebrew #2891)
properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
KJV usage: be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).
Pronounce: taw-hare'
Origin: a primitive root
that hath the plague
nega` (Hebrew #5061)
a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
KJV usage: plague, sore, stricken, stripe, stroke, wound.
Pronounce: neh'-gah
Origin: from 5060
: it is all turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
white
laban (Hebrew #3836)
from 3835; white
KJV usage: white.
Pronounce: law-bawn'
Origin: or (Gen. 49:12) laben {law-bane'}
g: he is clean
tahowr (Hebrew #2889)
from 2891; pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
KJV usage: clean, fair, pure(-ness).
Pronounce: taw-hore'
Origin: or tahor {taw-hore'}
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Isa. 64:6• 6And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away; (Isa. 64:6)
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John 9:41• 41Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains. (John 9:41)

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Flesh,
Leprosy,
Priest; Priesthood

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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if the leprosy.It may seem strange that the partial leper should be pronounced unclean, and the person totally covered with the disease clean.
This was probably owing to a different species or stage of the disease; the partial being contagious, the total not.
That there are two different species, or degrees, of the disease described here, is sufficiently evident:
in one, the person was all covered with a white enamelled scurf; in the other, there was a quick raw flesh in the risings.
On this account, the one was deemed unclean, or contagious, the other not; for contact with the quick raw flesh would be more likely to communicate the disease, than the touch of the hard dry scurf.
The ichor proceeding from the former, when brought into contact with the flesh of another, would soon be taken into constitution by means of the absorbent vessels; but where the surface was perfectly dry; the absorbent vessels of another, coming in contact with the diseased man, could imbibe nothing, and there was consequently but little or no danger of infection. This is the learned Dr. Mead's view of the subject; who thus accounts for the circumstances mentioned in the text.he is clean.
Isa. 64:6• 6And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away; (Isa. 64:6)
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John 9:41• 41Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains. (John 9:41)
• If the man was white all over, it was only the effect, as sin entirely confessed but no longer active; he was clean. (“Leviticus 13-14” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and the priest looketh, and behold, the leprosy covereth all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the sore; it is all turned white; he is clean.