Scab
סַפַּ֫חַתStrong’s H5597sappachat (sap-pa-chat)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sappachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “flaking skin”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:”
Meaning
- Eruption, scab, lesioneither malignant or benign
How it's translated
- flaking skin 1
- and to flaking skin 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
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Hebrew dictionary
סַפַּ֫חַת sappachat · scab
1) eruption, scab, lesion 1a) either malignant or benign
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.