צָרַעַת
tsâraʻath · tsaw-rah'-ath
leprosy
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6879 (צָרַע);
leprosy
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: leprosy.
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
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest › to see and know › the mark, the covenant sign
To pursue the straight path of the head, the highest that works to see and know of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָרַעַת 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
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of leprosy15 · 43%
- it is a leprosy4 · 11%
- leprosy4 · 11%
- him of his leprosy2 · 6%
- the leprosy2 · 6%
- and if a leprosy1 · 3%
- and the leprosy1 · 3%
- and, behold, if the leprosy1 · 3%
- even a leprosy1 · 3%
- as the leprosy1 · 3%
- from the leprosy1 · 3%
- and for the leprosy1 · 3%
- of his leprosy1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.