בַּהֶרֶת boheret

Hebrew word for “bright spot” · Strong’s H934 · used 12 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

1) white patch of skin, brightness, bright spot (on skin);

How it is translated

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

• bright spot 9
• bright spots 3

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (10), Leviticus 14 (1)

Forms

• בהרת 7
• הבהרת 2
• בבהרת 2
• ולבהרת 1

Words used with it

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

• לָבָן lavan “white” 7
• עוֹר or “skin” 8
• שְׂאֵת seet “elevation” 4
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 8
• מִכְוָה mikhvah “burn” 3
• כֵּהֶה keheh “faint” 3
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 5
• שֵׂעָר sear “hair” 3
• סַפַּחַת sappachat “scab” 2
• אוֹ o “or” 4
• צָרֶבֶת tsarevet “scar” 2
• נֶגַע nega “plague” 3

Key verses

The verses using boheret 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 13:4 — If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall…
• Leviticus 13:19 — And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
• Leviticus 13:23 — But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
• Leviticus 13:24 — Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
• Leviticus 13:25 — Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy…
• Leviticus 13:26 — But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the…
• Leviticus 13:28 — And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce…
• Leviticus 13:38 — If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
• Leviticus 13:39 — Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is…
• Leviticus 14:56 — And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:

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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.