Scab
גָּרָבStrong’s H1618garav (ga-rav)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Garav is the Hebrew word usually translated “eczema”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;”
Meaning
- Itch, scab
How it's translated
- eczema 2
- and with eczema 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 22:22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 28:27The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּרָב garav · scab
itch, scab
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scab” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCAB, noun
[Latin scabbies, scaber, rough.]
- An encrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing.
- The itch or mange in horses; a disease of sheep.
- A mean, dirty paltry fellow. [Low.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.