Scab
נֶ֫תֶקStrong’s H5424neteq (ne-teq)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neteq is the Hebrew word usually translated “scall”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.”
Meaning
- Scab, skin eruption, scall (of leprosy)
How it's translated
- the scall 12
- a scall 1
- and to scall 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:31And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
- Leviticus 13:32And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
- Leviticus 13:33He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
- Leviticus 13:34And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:35But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
- Leviticus 13:36Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫תֶק neteq · scab
scab, skin eruption, scall (of leprosy)
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.