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

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

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

43The 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,

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

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Verse 40

Original words

Now ifכִּ֥יH3588Conjunctiona manוְאִ֕ישׁH376Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singularloses his hairיִמָּרֵ֖טH4803Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular. . .רֹאשׁ֑וֹH7218Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular. . .ה֖וּאH1931Pronoun - third person masculine singular[and] is baldקֵרֵ֥חַH7142Adjective - masculine singularhe is stillהֽוּא׃H1931Pronoun - third person masculine singularcleanטָה֥וֹרH2889Adjective - masculine singular
Verse 41

Original words

Or ifוְאִם֙H518Conjunction. . .רֹאשׁ֑וֹH7218Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularhis hairlineמִפְּאַ֣תH6285Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct. . .פָּנָ֔יוH6440Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singularrecedesיִמָּרֵ֖טH4803Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularand heה֖וּאH1931Pronoun - third person masculine singularis bald on his foreheadגִּבֵּ֥חַH1371Noun - masculine singularhe is stillהֽוּא׃H1931Pronoun - third person masculine singularcleanטָה֥וֹרH2889Adjective - masculine singular
Verse 42

Original words

But ifוְכִֽי־H3588Conjunctionthere isיִהְיֶ֤הH1961Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singulara reddish-whiteלָבָ֣ןH3836Adjective - masculine singular. . .אֲדַמְדָּ֑םH125Adjective - masculine singularsoreנֶ֖גַעH5061Noun - masculine singularon the bald headבַקָּרַ֙חַת֙H7146Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singularorא֣וֹH176Conjunctionforeheadבַגַּבַּ֔חַתH1372Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singularitהִ֔ואH1931Pronoun - third person feminine singularis an infectious diseaseצָרַ֤עַתH6883Noun - feminine singularbreaking outפֹּרַ֙חַת֙H6524Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular[on it]בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹH7146Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular. . .א֥וֹH176Conjunction. . .בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃H1372Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Verse 43

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The priestהַכֹּהֵ֗ןH3548Article | Noun - masculine singularis to examine himוְרָאָ֨הH7200Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular-אֹת֜וֹH853Direct object marker | third person masculine singularand ifוְהִנֵּ֤הH2009Conjunctive waw | Interjectionthe swellingשְׂאֵת־H7613Noun - feminine singular constructof the infectionהַנֶּ֙גַע֙H5061Article | Noun - masculine singularon his bald headבְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹH7146Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singularorא֣וֹH176Conjunctionforeheadבְגַבַּחְתּ֑וֹH1372Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singularis reddish-whiteלְבָנָ֣הH3836Adjective - feminine singular. . .אֲדַמְדֶּ֔מֶתH125Adjective - feminine singularlikeכְּמַרְאֵ֥הH4758Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular constructa skinע֥וֹרH5785Noun - masculine singular constructdiseaseצָרַ֖עַתH6883Noun - feminine singular construct-בָּשָֽׂר׃H1320Noun - masculine singular
Verse 44

Original words

the manאִישׁ־H376Noun - masculine singularis diseasedצָר֥וּעַH6879Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singularheה֖וּאH1931Pronoun - third person masculine singularis uncleanטָמֵ֣אH2931Adjective - masculine singular. . .ה֑וּאH1931Pronoun - third person masculine singularThe priestהַכֹּהֵ֖ןH3548Article | Noun - masculine singularmust pronounce him uncleanטַמֵּ֧אH2930Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute. . .יְטַמְּאֶ֛נּוּH2930Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singularbecause of the infectionנִגְעֽוֹ׃H5061Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularon his headבְּרֹאשׁ֥וֹH7218Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular

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