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Lexicon :: Strong's G3014 - lepra

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λέπρα
Transliteration
lepra (Key)
Pronunciation
lep'-rah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as λεπίς (G3013)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:233,529

Strong’s Definitions

λέπρα lépra, lep'-rah; from the same as G3013; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy":—leprosy.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G3014 in the following manner: leprosy (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G3014 in the following manner: leprosy (4x).
  1. leprosy

  2. a most offensive, annoying, dangerous, cutaneous disease, the bacteria[1] generally pervades the whole body, common in Egypt and the East



1. Edited by BLB [An error was made in the Outline of Biblical Usage (copying Thayer’s)]
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λέπρα lépra, lep'-rah; from the same as G3013; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy":—leprosy.
STRONGS G3014:
λέπρα, λέπρας, (from the adjective λεπρός, which see), Hebrew צָרַעַת, leprosy (literally, morbid scaliness), a most offensive, annoying, dangerous, cutaneous disease, the bacteria[1] generally pervades the whole body; common in Egypt and the East (Leviticus 13f): Matthew 8:3; Mark 1:42; Luke 5:12f (Herodotus, Theophrastus, Josephus, Plutarch, others) (Cf. Orelli in Herzog 2 under the word Aussatz; Greenhill in Bible Educator 4:76f, 174f; Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah i., 492ff; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word; Clark in the 'Speaker's Com.' on Lev. pp. 559 sqq. 570 sqq.; Sir Risdon Bennett Diseases of the Bible. 1887. ("By-Paths of Bible Knowledge" vol. ix.))
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1. Edited by BLB [An error was made in the Thayer’s Greek Lexicon stating “the virus of which generally pervades the whole body”. Leprosy is caused by bacteria.]

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
13
Matthew
8:3
Mark
1:42
Luke
5:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3014 matches the Greek λέπρα (lepra),
which occurs 42 times in 38 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:2 - If any man should have in the skin of his flesh a bright clear spot, and there should be in the skin of his flesh a plague of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - and the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the mark have spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:9 - And if a man have a plague of leprosy, then he shall come to the priest;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a leprosy waxing old in the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall separate him, because he is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - And if the leprosy should have come out very evidently in the skin, and the leprosy should cover all the skin of the patient from the head to the feet, wheresoever the priest shall look;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - then the priest shall look, and, behold, the leprosy has covered all the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague, because it has changed all to white, it is clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - And the priest shall look upon the sound flesh, and the sound flesh shall prove him to be unclean; for it is unclean, it is a leprosy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the appearance be beneath the skin, and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; because it is a leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - But if it manifestly spread over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy; it has broken out in the ulcer.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - then the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the hair being white is changed to a bright colour, and its appearance is lower than the skin, it is a leprosy; it has broken out in the inflammation, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - And the priest shall look upon him on the seventh day; and if the spot be much spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:29 - And if a man or a woman have in them a plague of leprosy in the head or the beard;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - then the priest shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the appearance of it be beneath the skin, and in it there be thin yellowish hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scurf, it is a leprosy of the head or a leprosy of the beard.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:42 - And if there should be in his baldness of head, or his baldness of forehead, a white or fiery plague, it is leprosy in his baldness of head, or baldness of forehead.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - And the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the appearance of the plague be white or inflamed in his baldness of head or baldness in front, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of his flesh,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:47 - And if a garment have in it the plague of leprosy, a garment of wool, or a garment of flax,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:49 - and the plague be greenish or reddish in the skin, or in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any utensil of skin, it is a plague of leprosy, and he shall show it to the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - And the priest shall look upon the plague on the seventh day; and if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in the skin, in whatsoever things skins may be used in their workmanship, the plague is a confirmed leprosy; it is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:52 - He shall burn the garment, either the warp or woof in woollen garments or in flaxen, or in any utensil of skin, in which there may be the plague; because it is a confirmed leprosy; it shall be burnt with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:57 - And if it should still appear in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of skin, it is a leprosy bursting forth: that wherein is the plague shall be burnt with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 - This is the law of the plague of leprosy of a woollen or linen garment, either of the warp, or woof, or any leathern article, to pronounce it clean or unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:3 - And the priest shall come forth out of the camp, and the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague of the leprosy is removed from the leper.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:7 - And he shall sprinkle seven times upon him that was cleansed of his leprosy, and he shall be clean; and he shall let go the living bird into the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:32 - This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, and who cannot afford the offerings for his purification.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - Whensoever ye shall enter into the land of the Chananites, which I give you for a possession, and I shall put the plague of leprosy in the houses of the land of your possession;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - then the priest shall go in and see if the plague is spread in the house: it is a confirmed leprosy in the house, it is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:54 - This is the law concerning every plague of leprosy and scurf,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:55 - and of the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - and of declaring in what day it is unclean, and in what day it shall be purged: this is the law of the leprosy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:10 - And the cloud departed from the tabernacle; and, behold, Mariam was leprous, white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Mariam, and, behold, she was leprous.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:8 - Take heed to thyself in regard of the plague of leprosy: thou shalt take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - And she said to her mistress, O that my lord were before the prophet of God in Samaria; then he [fn]would recover him from his leprosy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 - And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now then, as soon as this letter shall reach thee, behold, I have sent to thee my servant Naiman, and thou shalt recover him from his leprosy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he rent his garments, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man of his leprosy? consider, however, I pray you, and see that this man seeks an occasion against me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:27 - The leprosy also of Naiman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - And Ozias was angry, and in his hand was the censer to burn incense in the temple: and when he was angry with the priests, then the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, over the altar of incense.
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