וּלְצָרַ֥עַת הַבֶּ֖גֶד וְלַבָּֽיִת
and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 14:55
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 14:55 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
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King James Version Public Domain
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and of a disease of clothing and of the house
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
for mildew in clothing or in a house,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
for mildew in clothing or in a house,
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King James Version Public Domain
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And of the leprosie of the garment, and of the house,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the leprosy of garments and houses,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and for mildew in clothing and in a house,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and of a disease of clothing and of the house
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and for the leprosy of garments, and of houses,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
for mold on clothing and in a house,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house;
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וּלְצָרַ֥עַת
tsâraʻath
H6883
“and · to/for · leprosy of”
Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 35× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 13:2
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
leprosy
- in people, malignant skin disease ( Lev. 13-14 )
- in clothing, a mildew or mould ( Lev 13:47-52 )
- in buildings, a mildew or mould ( Lev. 14:34-53 )
- וּלְצָרַ֥עַת tsâraʻath H6883 “and · to/for · leprosy of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַבֶּ֖גֶד beged H899 “the · garment” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְלַבָּֽיִת bayith H1004 “and · to/for the · house” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 3
- words
- 3
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּלְצָרַ֥עַת leprosy H6883 occurs in 33 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 11 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.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Leviticus 14:55 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Leviticus 13:47–59 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
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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.
καί ὁ λέπρα ἱμάτιον καί οἰκία
and of the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְלִסְגִירוּת לְבוּשָׁא וּלְבֵיתָא
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּלְצוּרְעָא דִלְבוּשָׁא וּלְבֵיתָא
and for leprosy in apparel, or in a house;
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsâraʻath (“leprosy”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “leprosy” (tsâraʻath) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Leviticus 13:2, which shares the word «leprosy», read alongside this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.