Leprous

Usually translated “lepers”, “leper” and “leprous”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• lepers 4
• a leper 2
• leper 2
• leprous 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Matthew 4
• Luke 3
• Mark 2

3 books in all.

• Be leprous (tsara)

• Matthew 10:8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
• Matthew 11:5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
• Matthew 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Mark 1:40And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
• Mark 14:3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
• Luke 4:27And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “leprous” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.