צָרַע tsara

Hebrew word for “be leprous” · Strong’s H6879 · used 20 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

1) to be diseased of skin, be leprous; 1a) (Qal) to be a leper; 1b) (Pual) to have leprosy

How it is translated

Glosses given for tsara in context, with how often each is used:

• leprous 7
• having a skin disease 3
• one who has a serious skin disease 2
• one who has a skin disease 2
• people having a skin disease 2
• who has a serious skin disease 1
• one who had a serious skin disease 1
• having a serious skin disease 1
• one having a skin disease 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 5 (3), 2 Chronicles 26 (3), Leviticus 13 (2), Leviticus 14 (2), 2 Kings 7 (2), Exodus 4 (1), Leviticus 22 (1), Numbers 5 (1), Numbers 12 (1), 2 Samuel 3 (1)

Forms

• מצרע 6
• מצרעת 3
• צרוע 3
• המצרע 2
• והצרוע 1
• הצרוע 1
• ומצרע 1
• מצרעים 1
• המצרעים 1
• מצורע 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tsara more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• טָמֵא tame “unclean” 4
• נַעֲמָן naaman “Naaman” 3
• שֶׁלֶג sheleg “snow” 3
• יוֹתָם yotam “Jotham” 3
• זוּב zuv “to flow” 3
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 6
• חׇפְשִׁית chophshut “freedom” 2
• נֶגַע nega “plague” 3
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 5
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 3
• עַד ad “till” 5
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4

Key verses

The verses using tsara that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 13:45 — And 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,…
• Leviticus 14:2 — This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
• Leviticus 14:3 — And 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 22:4 — What 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…
• Numbers 5:2 — Command 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:
• Numbers 12:10 — And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
• 2 Samuel 3:29 — Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or…
• 2 Kings 5:1 — Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto…
• 2 Kings 5:11 — But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and…
• 2 Kings 5:27 — The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
• 2 Kings 7:3 — And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
• 2 Kings 15:5 — And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.