Leviticus 13:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

then the priest shall examine it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and the appearance of it is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

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בַּמִּכְוָ֖ה

mikvâh

H4348

“in/at the · burn scar”

Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 13:24

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3554

TWOT: 961c

burnt spot, burn scar

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

22: words
18: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בַּמִּכְוָ֖ה burn scar H4348 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בַּמִּכְוָ֖ה burn scar H4348 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
10 nouns
2 adjectives
2 pronouns
1 preposition
3 particles

Verb forms

וְרָאָ֣ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
נֶהְפַּךְ֩ Niphal · Perfect
פָּרָ֑חָה Qal · Perfect
וְטִמֵּ֤א Piel · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

הַכֹּהֵ֡ן priest H3548 ×2
צָרַ֣עַת leprosy H6883 ×2
הִ֔וא he H1931 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 51 words from the Hebrew and 52 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 22 Hebrew tokens and 35 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 13:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 13:4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and the appearance of it isn't deeper than the skin, and the hair of it hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
Leviticus 13:18–20 "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Leviticus 13:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְרָאָ֣ה אֹתָ֣הּ הַכֹּהֵ֡ן וְהִנֵּ֣ה נֶהְפַּךְ֩ שֵׂעָ֨ר לָבָ֜ן בַּבַּהֶ֗רֶת וּמַרְאֶ֨הָ֙ עָמֹ֣ק מִן הָע֔וֹר צָרַ֣עַת הִ֔וא בַּמִּכְוָ֖ה פָּרָ֑חָה וְטִמֵּ֤א אֹתוֹ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן נֶ֥גַע צָרַ֖עַת הִֽוא

then the priest shall examine it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and the appearance of it is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

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Greek LXX Leviticus 13:25 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁράω αὐτός ὁ ἱερεύς καί ἰδού μεταβάλλω θρίξ λευκός εἰς ὁ αὐγάζω καί ὁ ὄψις αὐτός ταπεινός ἀπό ὁ δέρμα λέπρα εἰμί ἐν ὁ κατάκαυμα ἐκἀνθέω καί μιαίνω αὐτός ὁ ἱερεύς ἁφή λέπρα εἰμί

then the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the hair being white is changed to a bright color, 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.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְיֶחֱזֵי יָתַהּ כַּהֲנָא וְהָא אִתְהֲפִיךְ שֵׂעָר חִוָר בְּבַהֶרְתָּא וּמֶחֱזָהָא עַמִיק מִן מַשְׁכָּא סְגִירוּתָא הִיא בִּכְוָּאָה סְגִיאָה וִיסָאֵב יָתֵהּ כַּהֲנָא מַכְתַּשׁ סְגִירוּתָא הִיא

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְיֶחֱמֵי יָתָהּ כַּהֲנָא וְהָא אִתְהַפִּיךְ שְעָרָא לְמִחְוַור כְּסִידָא וְחֵיזְוֵיהּ עָמִיק לְמֵיחְוַור כְּתַלְגָא יַתִּיר מִן מַשְׁכָא סְגִירוּתָא הוּא בִּכְוָאָה סְגִיאַת וְיִסְאַב יָתֵיהּ כַּהֲנָא מַכְתַּשׁ סְגִירוּתָא הוּא

the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, the hair is turned white as chalk, and its appearance is deeper than the skin becoming white as snow; it is leprosy growing in the burning spot; and the priest shall make him unclean, it is the plague of leprosy.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Leviticus 13:25 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lev 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 broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague of leprosy.

Ver. 25. A leprosy broken out of the burning.] Seldom do passions burn, but there is a leprosy breaking out of that burning; such as causeth the climate where such lepers live to be like the torrid zone, too hot for any to live near them.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(25) Then the priest shall look.—If upon examination the priest finds that the hair which was before black has now turned white.

And it be in sight deeper than the skin.—Better, and its appearance is deeper than the other skin. (See Lev_13:3; Lev_13:20.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Then the priest shall look upon it,.... And examine it, whether it has the marks and signs of a leprosy or not, such as follow:

behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white; which before was black, or of another colour from white, and is now, turned into the whiteness of chalk, as the Targum of Jonathan:

and it be in sight deeper than the skin; the same Targum is,"and its sight or colour is deeper in being white like snow, more than the skin;''but this respects not the colour of it, as appearing to the sight, but the depth of the spot, going below the skin into the flesh, which, with the change of hair, are the two signs of leprosy, Lev 13:3,

it is a leprosy broken out of the burning; which sprung from thence, and what that had issued in:

wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean; a leper, and to be treated as such:

it is the plague of leprosy; being a plain case, according to the rules by which it was to be judged of.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 22 words (18 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mikvâh (“burn scar”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “burn scar” (mikvâh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Leviticus 13:24, which shares the word «burn scar», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “priest” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וְרָאָ֣ה» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 22 Hebrew ↔ 35 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 15 words in this verse.
“priest” occurs 2× in this single verse.
18 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 22 words in this verse.