Word

בֹּהֶרֶת

bôhereth · H934 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

spot

Small area in the skin that looks different from the rest and could possibly be a sign of an infectious skin disease which would make the person affected ritually unclean

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 13:4 “But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the person who has the infection for seven days.
Leviticus 13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white, bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest;

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

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 1 groups

לָבָןwhite 4

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בֹּהֶרֶתspot 2

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 3
עָמַדto stand 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כֵּהֶהfaded, dim, faint 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 3
לto/for 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Impact002001001024: The word denotes a bright or discolored spot on the skin examined for signs of infection, appearing repeatedly through the leprosy-diagnosis instructions of Leviticus 13:2-19, fitting this domain's category for visible marks left on the body.

Word family 2 words

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

בָּהִיר bâhîyr · H925 · bright, obscured, overcast · 1×בֹּהֶרֶתbôhereth · H934

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H934. bahereth בַּהֶ֫רֶת noun feminine brightness, bright spot, of eruption on skin (Late…

H934. bahereth
בַּהֶ֫רֶת noun feminine brightness, bright spot, of eruption on skin (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic בַּהְרָא) — ׳בּ absolute Lev 13:2 Lev 13:7t.; בֶּהָ֑רֶת Lev 14:56; plural absolute בֶּהָרוֺת Lev 13:38-39, — bright spot (sore, scar, etc.), clean or unclean Lev 14:56; following a burn (from fire) Lev 13:24-25, Lev 13:26, Lev 13:28; possible beginning of leprosy Lev 13:2, Lev 13:4, Lev 13:19, Lev 13:23; but possibly a (passing) eruption מִסְמַּחַת Lev 13:6; or due to a boil שְׁחִין Lev 13:19; Lev 13:23; — due to בֹּהַק (q. v.) Lev 13:38-39,.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Impact11 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