Leviticus 13:50

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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הַנָּ֑גַע

negaʻ

H5061

“the · plague”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 78× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 12:17

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5060

TWOT: 1293a

stroke, plague, disease, mark, plague spot - stroke, wound - stroke (metaphorical of disease) - mark (of leprosy)

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 →

9: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
1 adjective
2 particles

Verb forms

וְרָאָ֥ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְהִסְגִּ֥יר Hiphil · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

הַנָּ֑גַע plague H5061 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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 13:50 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 44:23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

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.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 21 words vs World English Bible 12. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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

Hebrew Leviticus 13:50 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְרָאָ֥ה הַכֹּהֵ֖ן אֶת הַנָּ֑גַע וְהִסְגִּ֥יר אֶת הַנֶּ֖גַע שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים

The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 13:50 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁράω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ ἁφή καί ἀποὁρίζω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ ἁφή ἑπτά ἡμέρα

And the priest shall look upon the plague, and the priest shall set apart that which has the plague seven days.

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 כַהֲנָא יָת מַכְתָּשָׁא וְיַסְגַר יָת מַכְתָּשָׁא שִׁבְעַת יוֹמִין

(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 כַהֲנָא יַת מַכְתְּשָׁא וְיַסְגֵר יַת מַכְתְּשָׁא שׁוּבְעָא יוֹמֵי

And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shall shut it up seven days:

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 13:50 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(50) And the priest shall look.—If upon examination the priest finds that the garment or vessel in question exhibits one of these symptoms, he must put it in quarantine for a week, as in the case of a human being. (See Lev_13:4.)

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

He shall therefore burn that garment,.... That there may be no more use of it, nor profit from it; and this was done without the city, as Ben Gersom asserts:

whether in warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin,

wherein the plague is; all and either of them were to be burnt:

for it is a fretting leprosy; See Gill on Lev 13:51,

it shall be burnt in the fire; which may teach both to hate the garment spotted with the flesh, and to put no trust in and have no dependence on a man's own righteousness, which is as filthy rags, and both are such as shall be burnt, and the loss of them suffered, even when a man himself is saved, yet so as by fire, Co1 3:15.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

seven days

"7 days" (See: Numbers)

seventh day

"Seventh" is the ordinal number for 7. AT: "day 7" (See: Ordinal Numbers)

anything in which leather is used

This can be translated in active form. AT: "anything in which a person uses leather" (See: Active or Passive)

anything in which the harmful mildew is found

This can be translated in active form. AT: "anything on which he found the harmful mildew" (See: Active or Passive)

the item is unclean

Something that God has declared to be unfit for people to touch is spoken of as if it were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)

it can lead to disease

The harmful mildew could cause disease in a person who comes in contact with the item.

The item must be completely burned up

This can be translated in active form. AT: "He must burn the item completely" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

priest

clean

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is negaʻ (“plague”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “plague” (negaʻ) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Ezekiel 44:23, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “plague” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וְרָאָ֥ה» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
“plague” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.