צָרַע
tsâraʻ · tsaw-rah'
to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: leper, leprous.
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest › to see and know
To pursue the straight path of the head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָרַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- was leprous1 · 5%
- he is a leprous1 · 5%
- and the leper1 · 5%
- of the leper1 · 5%
- in the leper1 · 5%
- is a leper1 · 5%
- every leper1 · 5%
- became leprous1 · 5%
- and, behold, she was leprous1 · 5%
- or that is a leper1 · 5%
- but he was a leper1 · 5%
- the leper1 · 5%
- a leper1 · 5%
- leprous1 · 5%
- and when these lepers1 · 5%
- so that he was a leper1 · 5%
- upon him, and, behold, he was leprous1 · 5%
- was a leper1 · 5%
- being a leper1 · 5%
- he is a leper1 · 5%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.