בַּהֶ֫רֶת
white patch
‘white patch’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 9 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H934 appears — 11 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 11 verses
- Leviticus 13:2 בַהֶ֔רֶת n c fs "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:
- Leviticus 13:4 בַּהֶרֶת֩ n c fs 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 13:19 בַהֶ֖רֶת n c fs and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;
- Leviticus 13:23 הַ/בַּהֶ֨רֶת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
- Leviticus 13:24 בַּהֶ֛רֶת n c fs "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,
- Leviticus 13:25 בַּ/בַּהֶ֗רֶת prep det + n c fs 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.
- Leviticus 13:26 בַּ/בֶּהֶ֨רֶת֙ prep det + n c fs But if the priest examines it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
- Leviticus 13:28 הַ/בַּהֶ֜רֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.
- Leviticus 13:38 בֶּהָרֹ֑ת בֶּהָרֹ֖ת n c fp n c fp "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;
- Leviticus 13:39 בֶּהָרֹ֖ת n c fp then the priest shall examine them; and, behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
- Leviticus 14:56 וְ/לַ/בֶּהָֽרֶת conj + prep det + n c fs and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“white patch” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun בהרת (bôhereth). It clusters heavily in Leviticus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. With 11 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The King James Version usually renders it “bright spot,” while modern versions prefer “spot” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 11-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H934 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 11 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 11 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 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: Bright spot 6×, Bright spots 2×
- American Standard Version: Bright spot 4×, Bright spots 2×, Or a bright spot 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Spot 6×, Spots 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bright spot 7×, Bright spots 3×, A 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H934 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H934 across 13 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H934 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H934 across 15 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 2 senses 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.
- white patch of skin, brightness, bright spot (on skin)
- (CLBL) bright spot, scar, blister, boil
Word origin
n.f. brightness, bright spot, of eruption on skin (NH id., Aramaic בַּהְרָא)—בּ׳ abs. Lv 13:2 + 7 times; בֶּהָ֑רֶת Lv 14:56; pl. abs. בֶּהָרוֹת Lv 13:38, 39;—bright spot (sore, scar, etc.), clean or unclean Lv 14:56; following a burn (from fire) Lv 13:24, 25, 26, 28; possible beginning of leprosy Lv 13:2, 4, 19, 23; but possibly a (passing) eruption מִסְפַּחַת v 6; or due to a boil שְׁחִין v 19, 23;—due to בֹּהַק (q.v.) Lv 13:38, 39.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בהיר (bâhîyr) (H925) — bright.
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.
בַּהֶרֶת
- bright white spot on the skin, eventually one of the symptoms of leprosy. Neg. I, 1 ב׳ עזה כשלג bahereth means an intensively bright spot (sparkling) like snow. Ib. II, 1 ב׳ עזה וכ׳ an intensely bright spot appears faint on the skin of a Germanus (Teuton), and the faint spot appears bright on a Cushite; (Sifra Thazr., Neg. ch. I, ed. Weiss כג׳, ככ׳; Yalk. Lev. 551 גרדמ׳, corr. בגרמ׳, בכושי); a. fr.—Pl. בֶּהָרוֹת. Neg. VII, 1. Ib. VIII, 6; Tosef. ib. III, 12.
*הֶרֶת
- v. Jer. XX, womb of an animal. Ber. 44ᵇ; 57ᵇ; Ab. Zar. 29ᵃ. [Oth. opin. sweet-bread, pancreas; v. רֶתֶת.] e.g. Jeremiah 20:17
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 11 distinct written forms H934 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֶּהָרֹ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 13:38 | 2 |
| בַהֶ֔רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:2 | 1 |
| בַהֶ֖רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:19 | 1 |
| בֶּהָרֹ֑ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 13:38 | 1 |
| בַּ/בֶּהֶ֨רֶת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:26 | 1 |
| בַּ/בַּהֶ֗רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:25 | 1 |
| בַּהֶ֛רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:24 | 1 |
| בַּהֶרֶת֩ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:4 | 1 |
| הַ/בַּהֶ֜רֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:28 | 1 |
| הַ/בַּהֶ֨רֶת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:23 | 1 |
| וְ/לַ/בֶּהָֽרֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 14:56 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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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