Scab
מִסְפַּ֫חַתStrong’s H4556mispachat (mis-pa-chat)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mispachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “skin rash”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.”
Meaning
- Eruption, scab
How it's translated
- the skin rash 2
- a skin rash 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:7But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:
- Leviticus 13:8And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
Hebrew dictionary
מִסְפַּ֫חַת mispachat · scab
eruption, 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.