Word

צָרַעַת

tsâraʻath · H6883 · Hebrew · 35 occurrences

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Meanings

skin disease or mildew

A condition affecting the skin or surface, probably covering psoriasis, favus and leucoderma and also mildew on cloth and walls, making people, clothes and buildings ritually unclean, regarded as infectious and as a curse and punishment from God

Examples
Leviticus 13:2 “When someone has on the skin of his body a swelling, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.
Leviticus 13:3 “The priest shall look at the infected area on the skin of the body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean.
Leviticus 13:8 “And the priest shall look, and if the rash has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

8 occurrences in 9 groups

הוּhis 3
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 3 groups

מָאַרmalignant, painful 3
יָשֵׁןto sleep 1
פָּרַחto break out 1

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 4 groups

כָּסָהto cover 2
דָּבַקto cling, to cleave 1
זָרַחto rise 1
פָּרַחto break out 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

9 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 8
נֶגַעplague, disease 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 8
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

16 occurrences in 3 groups

נֶגַעplague, disease 14
מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 1
תּוֹרָהlaw, instruction 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

λέπρα lépra · G3014 · leprosy, dread skin disease: Greek λέπρα is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew צָרַעַת, both referring to the skin disease(s) rendered 'leprosy' in English translations; the LXX consistently uses λέπρα to render צָרַעַת throughout Leviticus and other ritual-purity contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Impact002001001024: צָרַעַת denotes leprosy, as of the infection of leprosy the priest must examine on the skin of the body in Leviticus 13:2 and 13:3, the leprosy pronounced unclean when the rash has spread in Leviticus 13:8, and the chronic leprosy that leaves a person unclean and unisolated in Leviticus 13:9 and 13:11.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צָרַע tsâraʻ · H6879 · to suffer from a skin disease, to be affected by mildew · 20×צָרַעַתtsâraʻath · H6883צִרְעָה tsirʻâh · H6880 · hornet, wasp · 3×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6883. tsaraath צָרַ֫עַת35 noun feminine leprosy; — absolute ׳צ Deu 24:3 +, צָרָ֑עַת Lev…

H6883. tsaraath
צָרַ֫עַת35 noun feminine leprosy; — absolute ׳צ Deu 24:3 +, צָרָ֑עַת Lev 13:2 +; construct צָרַ֫עַת 2Ki 5:27 +; suffix צָרַעְתּוֺ 2Ki 5:3, 2Ki 5:6, 2Ki 5:7; — leprosy 2Ki 5:3, 2Ki 5:6, 2Ki 5:7, 2Ki 5:27; 2Ch 26:19; elsewhere only in laws: צ ׳נֶגַע Deu 24:8, and Lev 13:14 (P; 29 t.): הַצ ׳תּוֺרַת Lev 14:57; specific of
a. human disease (as above) צ ׳נֶגַע Lev 13:2 Lev 13:8t.; without ׳נ Lev 13:8 Lev 13:10t.
b. leprosy in a garment Lev 13:47, Lev 13:49, Lev 13:51, Lev 13:52, Lev 13:59 (צ נֶנַע ׳תּוֺרַת בֶּגֶד).
c. in house Lev 14:34 (צ ׳נֶגַע), Lev 14:44; house or garment Lev 14:55. — Exact meaning of
b. and
c. dubious, perhaps some fungus or mould; see especially Di Dr-Wh Baen.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Impact35 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0