Be leprous
צָרַעStrong’s H6879tsara (tsa-ra)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsara is the Hebrew word usually translated “leprous”, “having a skin disease” and “has a serious skin disease”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.”
Meaning
- To be diseased of skin, be leprous(Qal) to be a leper · (Pual) to have leprosy
How it's translated
- leprous 7
- having a skin disease 4
- the has a serious skin disease 2
- the having a skin disease 2
- has a serious skin disease 1
- the had a serious skin disease 1
- having a serious skin disease 1
- has a skin disease 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 6
- Leviticus 5
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Numbers 2
- Exodus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:44He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
- Leviticus 13:45And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
- Leviticus 14:2This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
- Leviticus 14:3And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
- Leviticus 22:4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
- Numbers 5:2Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Hebrew dictionary
צָרַע tsara · be leprous
1) to be diseased of skin, be leprous 1a) (Qal) to be a leper 1b) (Pual) to have leprosy
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leprous” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEP'ROUS, adjective
[See Leper.]
Infected with leprosy; covered with white scales.
- “His hand was leprous as snow” Exodus 4:6
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.