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“Whenכִּיyou comeתָבֹאוּintoאֶלthe landאֶרֶץof Canaan,כְּנַעַןwhichאֲשֶׁרIאֲנִיam givingנֹתֵןyouלָכֶםas a possession,לַאֲחֻזָּהand I putוְנָתַתִּיa leprousצָרַעַתmarkנֶגַעin a houseבְּבֵיתof the landאֶרֶץof your possession,אֲחֻזַּתְכֶם
Leviticus 14:34
Study it in the app““When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a leprous mark in a house of the land of your possession,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Leviticus 14:34, word by word
- you comeתָבֹאוּtavou
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “tavou” appears- the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Canaanכְּנַעַןkenaan
Canaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appears- am givingנֹתֵןnoten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “noten” appears- as a possessionאֲחֻזָּהachuza
possession
Possession: land that someone holds as his own.
Where else “achuza” appears- a leprousצָרַעַתtsaraat
leprosy (tsaraat)
Tsaraat, translated "leprosy": a skin disease that made a person unclean; the same word is used for marks on clothing and on houses (Leviticus 13-14). It covers more than the disease that bears that name today.
Where else “tsaraat” appears- markנֶגַעnega
sore
An odd patch on skin, clothing or a house.
Where else “nega” appears- in a houseבֵיתvet
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “vet” appears
Translation note
It can be understood that the “leprosy” of a house is a mark that spreads over the walls, like mold or saltpeter.
Places in this verse
Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
The context
33YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
34 · This verse (above)
35the one to whom the house belongs shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a mark has appeared to me in the house.’