Words the Bible translates as spot
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- negaנֶגַעa blow that lands as a sending from God: a plague, calamity, or stroke of discipline understood as coming from his hand.
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- the 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.
- mumמוּםa blemish: a physical defect or moral fault that mars someone or something otherwise whole.
- boheretבַּהֶרֶתa bright, shiny patch on the skin: one of the three marks a priest inspects when deciding whether a skin condition makes a person unclean
- talaטָלָאspotted or patched: covered with patches of a second color, or with pieces of material set into the surface
- spilosσπίλοςa spot or stain: a blemish that mars something otherwise clean, used morally of the corruption that spoils a person or a community
- bohaqבֹּהַקspotnot studied yet
- ḥavarburahחֲבַרְבֻּרָהspotnot studied yet
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