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יַלֶּפֶת

yalefet · scabs

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3217 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

yalefet (יַלֶּפֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scabs”.

Or dry sores on the skin.

How to say it

ya·le·fet

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. Dry crusted patches breaking out on the skin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • scabs ×1
  • sores ×1

Where it appears

  • Leviticus 21:20

    or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or scabs, or sores, or damaged testicles.

  • Leviticus 22:22

    Blind, or broken, or maimed, or with warts, or with an itch, or with scabs: you shall not present these to YHWH, and you shall not give from them a fire offering on the altar to YHWH.