Quick Definition
be leprous
Strong's Definition
to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: leper, leprous.
TWOT Reference: 1971
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
צָרַע (tsa.ra) — be leprous. 1) to be diseased of skin, be leprous 1a) (Qal) to be a leper 1b) (Pual) to have leprosy
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Impact | verb qal, verb pu'al
to suffer from a skin disease, to be affected by mildew = state in which humans suffer from a condition that affects the skin, which probably covers diseases such as psoriasis, favus, leucoderma; ► a person who suffers from this disease is considered ritually unclean, and therefore unable to participate in worship; ≈ regarded as infectious, and seen as a curse and a punishment from God
EXO 4:6 · LEV 13:44 · LEV 13:45 · LEV 14:2 · LEV 14:3 · LEV 22:4 · NUM 5:2 · NUM 12:10 · NUM 12:10 · 2SA 3:29 · 2KI 5:1 · 2KI 5:11 · 2KI 5:27 · 2KI 7:3 · 2KI 7:8 · 2KI 15:5 · 2CH 26:20 · 2CH 26:21 · 2CH 26:21 · 2CH 26:23
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[צָרַע] vb. denom., only in pass., be stricken with leprosy, leprous Qal elsewh. as subst., = leper
Pu. leprous
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