נֶ֫תֶק
scab
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5424 appears — 9 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 9 verses
- Leviticus 13:30 נֶ֣תֶק n c ms then the priest shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the appearance of it is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
- Leviticus 13:31 הַ/נֶּ֗תֶק הַ/נֶּ֖תֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms If the priest examines the plague of itching, and, behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days.
- Leviticus 13:32 הַ/נֶּ֔תֶק הַ/נֶּ֔תֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin,
- Leviticus 13:33 הַ/נֶּ֖תֶק הַ/נֶּ֛תֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.
- Leviticus 13:34 הַ/נֶּ֜תֶק הַ/נֶּ֨תֶק֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and, behold, if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:35 הַ/נֶּ֖תֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
- Leviticus 13:36 הַ/נֶּ֖תֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:37 הַ/נֶּ֜תֶק הַ/נֶּ֖תֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
- Leviticus 14:54 וְ/לַ/נָּֽתֶק conj + prep det + n c ms This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
About this entry
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נתק — transliterated netheq — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “scab.” Its uses cluster heavily in Leviticus (100% of all occurrences). With 9 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Leviticus 13:30, it then recurs through the corpus. The King James Version usually renders it “scall,” while modern versions prefer “scaly outbreak” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5424 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 9 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Scall 8×, Behold if the scall 3×
- American Standard Version: Scall 8×, And 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Scaly outbreak 6×, It 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scall 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5424 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5424 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5424 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5424 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- scab, skin eruption, scall (of leprosy)
Word origin
n.m. Lv 13:32 scab, an eruption of skin, on head or in beard, causing suspicion of leprosy (lit. a tearing off, i.e. what one is inclined to scratch or tear away, cf. scabies from scabere, Krätze from kratzen, etc., v. Di Lv 13:30);—נ׳ abs. Lv 13:30, 32(×2), 33, 34(×2), 35, 36, 37(×2); נָתֶ֑ק 14:54; נֶגַע הַנֶּתֶק 13:31(×2) (all P).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נתק (nâthaq) (H5423) — to pull away.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָתַק
- cmp. preced. a.
- 1. to break loose; tear out. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ bot. מקום שנהגו לקוץ יִתּוֹק לִתּוֹק וכ׳ where it is customary to cut the reeds, let him pluck them; where it is customary to pluck them &c.; Tosef. ib. III, 19 Var. יִתּוֹךְ לִתּוֹךְ. Cant. R. to VIII, 6 (ref. to Jer. XXII, 24) שהוא נוֹתֵק מלכות וכ׳ that he will tear the Davidic kingdom out of his hand; ib. משם אני נותק וכ׳ from there I shall tear loose the kingdom &c.; Pesik. Shub., p. 163ᵃ. Bekh. 33ᵇ נותק he who tears loose (testicles and throws them away); נותק אחר כורת who removes them after one has cut them (tearing off the roots). Sifra Thazr., Neg., ch. VII, Par. 5 אם נְתָקוֹ אדם if a man made it bald (נֶתֶק); (R. S. to Neg. III, 5 אם נִיתְּקוּ בידי אדם, Nif.); a. e.—Part. pass. נָתוּק (b. h.) an animal whose testicles have been forcibly removed; [oth. opin.: whose membrum has been mutilated by a violent severance]. Sifra Emor, Par. 7, ch. VII; Tosef. Yeb. X, 5. e.g. Jeremiah 22:24
- 2. to cause oozing, to secrete. Tosef. Ter. III, 13 ענבים רכות ונוֹתְקוֹת … ואינן נוֹתְקִין וכ׳ grapes are soft and let their juice ooze out (when packed), but olives are hard and do not let their oil ooze out.; Y. ib. III, 42ᵇ top, v. דֵּיהֶא.
- 1. to tear loose. Cant. R. l. c. (ref. to Jer. l. c.) אֲנַתֶּקְךָ אין … אֲתַקֶּנְךָ it does not sayănatteḳkha (I shall tear thee loose), but (it may be read) athaḳḳenkha (I shall restore thee, v. תָּקַן); Yalk. Jer. 303 אַתֶּקְךָ (Hif.); Pesik. l. c.
- 2. [to tear, pull] to remonstrate, protest. Sifré Num. 115; Yalk. Num. 750 התחיל הבן ההוא מְנַתֵּק that son began to protest (against doing slave’s work); התחילו ישראל מְנַתְּקִים the Israelites remonstrated (against the laws imposed upon them); v. infra.
- 1. to be torn loose; to fall out. Ḥull. 123ᵇ שומר העשוי לִנָּתֵק מאליו a protection (cover) which it likely to come off of itself. Nidd. 65ᵃ כיון שנִתְּקוּ שניו וכ׳ when a man’s teeth are gone; a. e.
- 2. [to tear one’s self loose,] to remonstrate, be discontented. Sifra Aḥăré, Par. 9, ch. XIII גלוי … לִינָּתֵק בעריות it was known before the Lord that they would bear unwillingly the restrictive laws concerning sexual relations; נִיתְּקוּ בעריות they did remonstrate &c. (ref. to Num. XI, 10; v. Sabb. 130ᵃ; Yoma 75ᵃ); Yalk. Lev. 590. e.g. Numbers 11:10
- 3. to be shifted, transformed, modified. Zeb. 5ᵇ, a. fr. אשם שנ׳ לרעיה an animal dedicated as a guilt-offering which (on account of its owner’s death &c.) has been condemned to pasture until natural death (v. סָאַב).—Y. Naz. IV, end, 53ᶜ משנ׳ מלא תעשה לעשה since it (the cutting of the hair which is forbidden to the Nazarite) has gone over from a prohibition to a positive duty (Num. VI, 18).—לאו שנ׳ לעשה a prohibition transformed into a command, i.e. a prohibitive law the transgression of which must be repaired by a succeeding act, e.g. (Lev. XIX, 13) ‘thou shalt not rob’, and (ib. V, 23) ‘he shall make restitution.’ Ḥull. 141ᵃ (for which ib. XII, 4 מצות לא תעשה שיש בה קום עשה). Yoma 85ᵇ לא תעשה שנ׳ לעשה; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 6:18
- 4. (v. Kal 2) to enter a stage of moist decomposition. Y. Naz. VII, 56ᵇ, v. נֵצֶל.—5) (denom. of נֶתֶק) to become hairless and blanched, to be afflicted with נֶתֶק. Neg. X, 9 ונ׳ כל ראשו and his entire head became bald (v. קָרַחַת). Sifra Thazr. l. c. את שני׳ נתק בתוך נתק a person that became afflicted with a bald spot within a patch of hair surrounded by baldness (Neg. X, 7 שני נְתָקִין זה לפנים מזה; a. fr.).
נְתַק
- ; Af. אַתֵּיק to pull, drag. Targ. Jer. XII, 3 אַתִּיקִינוֹן or אַתְּקִינוֹן (ed. אַתְקְנִ׳, ed. Lag. אַתְקִינִי׳, v. תְּקַן; h. text התיקם).
- 1. to tear, sever. B. Kam. 9ᵇ שור דרכיה לנַתּוּקֵי an ox may be expected to tear (the rope). Bets. 10ᵇ מְנַתְּקֵּי Ms. M., v. נְתַח.
- 2. to snatch, take away. Yoma 46ᵇ כיון דנַתְּקָהּ נתקה having snatched it (the coal from the altar), he has snatched it (and it has its sacred character no longer).
- 3. to shift, transform. Macc. 15ᵃ ההוא לנַתּוּקֵי לאוי וכ׳ Ms. M. (Rashi לאויה, ed. לאו) this (positive command) has the function of modifying the prohibitory law (intimating the reparation in the event of its transgression); v. preced. Nif
- 1. to be severed, snatched. Targ. Koh. IV, 12.—Yoma l. c. אינְּתִיקָה למצותה the taking it from the altar was done for an ordained use of it; a. e.
- 2. to be set aside, be designated. Erub. 13ᵃ כיון דא׳ לשום רחל תו לא הדרא מִינַּתְּקָא וכ׳ having been originally designated (copied) for Rachel, it cannot again be converted and used for Leah; Sot. 20ᵇ. Zeb. 3ᵃ; a. e.
נֶתֶק
- preced.) [torn out,] bald (blanched) spot on the head or in the beard. Neg. X, 2; a. fr. Pl. נְתָקִים, נְתָקִין. Ib. 1; 7; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H5424 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/נֶּ֖תֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:31 | 5 |
| הַ/נֶּ֔תֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:32 | 2 |
| הַ/נֶּ֜תֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:34 | 2 |
| הַ/נֶּ֗תֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:31 | 1 |
| הַ/נֶּ֛תֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:33 | 1 |
| הַ/נֶּ֨תֶק֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:34 | 1 |
| וְ/לַ/נָּֽתֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 14:54 | 1 |
| נֶ֣תֶק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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