וְלַשְׂאֵ֥ת וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת וְלַבֶּהָֽרֶת
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 14:56
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 14:56 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 a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
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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 a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
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King James Version Public Domain
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and of the swelling and of the rash and of the bright spot,
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 a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and for a swelling, rash, or spot,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and for a swelling, rash, or spot,
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King James Version Public Domain
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And of the swelling, and of the skab, and of the white spot.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of a scar and of blisters breaking out, of a shining spot, and when the colours are diversely changed:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot, --
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot—
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
for swelling, for a rash, and for a bright spot,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and of the swelling and of the rash and of the bright spot,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and for the rising, and for the scab, and for the bright spot,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
as well as for a swelling, rash, or spot.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
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וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת
çappachath
H5597
“and · to/for the · scab”
Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 13:2
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
eruption, scab, lesion
- either malignant or benign
- וְלַשְׂאֵ֥ת sᵉʼêth H7613 “and · to/for the · exaltation” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת çappachath H5597 “and · to/for the · scab” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְלַבֶּהָֽרֶת bôhereth H934 “and · to/for the · white patch” Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, 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
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת scab H5597 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת scab H5597 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 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 14:56 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Leviticus 13:2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests:
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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 οὐλή καί σημασία καί ὁ αὐγάζω
and of a sore, and of a clear spot, and of a shining one,
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)
וּלְעַמְקָא וּלְעַדְיָא וּלְבַהֲרָא
(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)
וּלְשׁוּמָא וְלִקְלוֹפֵי וּלְבַהֲקֵי
and for tumours, scars, and inflamed blotches.
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 çappachath (“scab”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “scab” (çappachath) shape what this verse is saying?
- Leviticus 13:2 shares the word «scab» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 14:56 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.