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נֶתֶק

netek · ringworm, scall

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5424 · appears 14 times in the Bible

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What it means

netek (נֶתֶק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ringworm, scall”.

An itching disease of the skin of the head or beard that makes the hair fall out.

How to say it

ne·tek

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 skin disease of the head.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Leviticus 13:30

    the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

  • Leviticus 13:31

    But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

  • Leviticus 13:32

    The priest shall examine the sore on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread and there has not been yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the ringworm is not deeper than the skin,

  • Leviticus 13:33

    he shall shave himself, but the ringworm he shall not shave; and the priest shall isolate the one with the ringworm seven days a second time.

  • Leviticus 13:34

    The priest shall examine the ringworm on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread in the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; he shall wash his garments and be clean.

  • Leviticus 13:35

    But if the ringworm spreads widely in the skin after his purification,

  • Leviticus 13:36

    the priest shall examine him, and if the ringworm has spread in the skin, the priest need not look for the yellowish hair; he is unclean.

  • Leviticus 13:37

    But if in his eyes the ringworm has stayed as it was and black hair has grown in it, the ringworm has healed; he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.

  • Leviticus 14:54

    This is the instruction for every leprous sore and for ringworm,

And 5 more times.