Words the Bible translates as leprosy
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- lepraλέπραa scaling, flaking, or discoloring skin condition that made a person ritually unclean and shut out of the community.
- tsara'atצָרַעַתa spreading surface disorder (scaling, discoloration, or eruption) that a priest inspects and declares ritually unclean: the biblical category long but misleadingly translated leprosy
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