Words the Bible translates as sore
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- negaנֶגַעthe suspect mark a priest inspects: the sore on skin, or the discoloration in cloth or a house wall, presented to be ruled clean or unclean.
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- a blow that lands as a sending from God: a plague, calamity, or stroke of discipline understood as coming from his hand.
- ḥazaqחָזָקstrong: possessing force that does not give way, whether power that overwhelms or hardness that will not bend
- helkosἕλκοςsorenot studied yet
- neteqנֶתֶקa flaking, bare patch on the scalp or in the beard where the hair thins and falls out, which a priest inspects and rules clean or unclean
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