Scab
יַלֶּ֫פֶתStrong’s H3217yallephet (yal-le-phet)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yallephet is the Hebrew word usually translated “scabs”. It appears in 2 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
- Scab, skin sore, scales, scurf, an eruptive disease
How it's translated
- scabs 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
יַלֶּ֫פֶת yallephet · scab
scab, skin sore, scales, scurf, an eruptive disease
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.