boheret · bright spot

What it means

boheret (בֹּהֶרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bright spot”.

A white, shiny spot on the skin.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A light patch on the skin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bright spot ×9
• bright spots ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus 13:2

  “When a human being has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body a leprous sore, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:19

  and there is in the place of the ulcer a white swelling or a reddish white bright spot, it shall be shown to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:23

  But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread, it is the scar of the ulcer, and the priest shall declare him clean.

• Leviticus 13:24

  Or when the body has in its skin a burn by fire, and the patch of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish white or white,

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:26

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:28

  But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin but it has faded, it is the swelling of the burn, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.

• Leviticus 13:38

  When a man or a woman has on the skin of their body bright spots, white bright spots,

• Leviticus 13:39

  the priest shall examine them, and if on the skin of their body the bright spots are faded white, it is a mere eruption that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

• Leviticus 14:56

  and for a swelling, and for an eruption, and for a bright spot,

And 1 more times.