Focused Passage

Leviticus 13:40-44

Priestly Examination of Skin Disease, Uncleanness, and Contaminated Garments

The LORD commands Moses and Aaron to instruct the priests how to examine swelling, rash, bright spots, raw flesh, boils, burns, scalp disease, harmless rashes, baldness-related conditions, confirmed defiling disease, and contaminated fabric or leather, so that clean and unclean may be rightly distinguished.

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40 Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.

41 Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.

42 But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.

43 The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,

44 the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.

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References and Original Words

Verse 40

Original words

Now if כִּ֥י H3588 Conjunction a man וְאִ֕ישׁ H376 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular loses his hair יִמָּרֵ֖ט H4803 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular . . . רֹאשׁ֑וֹ H7218 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular . . . ה֖וּא H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular [and] is bald קֵרֵ֥חַ H7142 Adjective - masculine singular he is still הֽוּא׃ H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular clean טָה֥וֹר H2889 Adjective - masculine singular
Verse 41

Original words

Or if וְאִם֙ H518 Conjunction . . . רֹאשׁ֑וֹ H7218 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular his hairline מִפְּאַ֣ת H6285 Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct . . . פָּנָ֔יו H6440 Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular recedes יִמָּרֵ֖ט H4803 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular and he ה֖וּא H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular is bald on his forehead גִּבֵּ֥חַ H1371 Noun - masculine singular he is still הֽוּא׃ H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular clean טָה֥וֹר H2889 Adjective - masculine singular
Verse 42

Original words

But if וְכִֽי־ H3588 Conjunction there is יִהְיֶ֤ה H1961 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular a reddish-white לָבָ֣ן H3836 Adjective - masculine singular . . . אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם H125 Adjective - masculine singular sore נֶ֖גַע H5061 Noun - masculine singular on the bald head בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙ H7146 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular or א֣וֹ H176 Conjunction forehead בַגַּבַּ֔חַת H1372 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular it הִ֔וא H1931 Pronoun - third person feminine singular is an infectious disease צָרַ֤עַת H6883 Noun - feminine singular breaking out פֹּרַ֙חַת֙ H6524 Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular [on it] בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ H7146 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular . . . א֥וֹ H176 Conjunction . . . בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃ H1372 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Verse 43

Original words

The priest הַכֹּהֵ֗ן H3548 Article | Noun - masculine singular is to examine him וְרָאָ֨ה H7200 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular - אֹת֜וֹ H853 Direct object marker | third person masculine singular and if וְהִנֵּ֤ה H2009 Conjunctive waw | Interjection the swelling שְׂאֵת־ H7613 Noun - feminine singular construct of the infection הַנֶּ֙גַע֙ H5061 Article | Noun - masculine singular on his bald head בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ H7146 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular or א֣וֹ H176 Conjunction forehead בְגַבַּחְתּ֑וֹ H1372 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular is reddish-white לְבָנָ֣ה H3836 Adjective - feminine singular . . . אֲדַמְדֶּ֔מֶת H125 Adjective - feminine singular like כְּמַרְאֵ֥ה H4758 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct a skin ע֥וֹר H5785 Noun - masculine singular construct disease צָרַ֖עַת H6883 Noun - feminine singular construct - בָּשָֽׂר׃ H1320 Noun - masculine singular
Verse 44

Original words

the man אִישׁ־ H376 Noun - masculine singular is diseased צָר֥וּעַ H6879 Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular he ה֖וּא H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular is unclean טָמֵ֣א H2931 Adjective - masculine singular . . . ה֑וּא H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular The priest הַכֹּהֵ֖ן H3548 Article | Noun - masculine singular must pronounce him unclean טַמֵּ֧א H2930 Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute . . . יְטַמְּאֶ֛נּוּ H2930 Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular because of the infection נִגְעֽוֹ׃ H5061 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular on his head בְּרֹאשׁ֥וֹ H7218 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular

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