צָרַעַת tsaraat

Hebrew word for “leprosy” · Strong’s H6883 · used 35 times in 33 verses

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Meaning

1) leprosy; 1a) in people, malignant skin disease (Le 13:1-14:57);

How it is translated

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

• serious skin disease 22
• serious disease 8
• skin disease 5

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (19), Leviticus 14 (8), 2 Kings 5 (4), Deuteronomy 24 (1), 2 Chronicles 26 (1)

Forms

• צרעת 21
• הצרעת 8
• מצרעתו 3
• ולצרעת 1
• וצרעת 1
• והצרעת 1

Words used with it

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

• נֶגַע nega “plague” 22
• עוֹר or “skin” 14
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 18
• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 9
• אוֹ o “or” 9
• רָאָה raah “to see” 14
• לָבָן lavan “white” 6
• מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 6
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 7
• שְׁתִי sheti “warp” 4
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 9
• עֵרֶב erev “mixture” 4

Key verses

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

• Leviticus 13:2 — 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…
• Leviticus 13:3 — And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the…
• 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 14:7 — And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the…
• Leviticus 14:32 — This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
• Leviticus 14:34 — When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
• Leviticus 14:54 — This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
• Deuteronomy 24:8 — Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so…
• 2 Kings 5:3 — And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
• 2 Kings 5:7 — And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth…
• 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 Chronicles 26:19 — Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before…

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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.