tsaraat · leprosy (tsaraat)

What it means

tsaraat (צָרַעַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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.

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 skin disease that made unclean; also marks on clothes or houses.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• leprosy ×25
• leprous ×10

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×29
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×1

• 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 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:8

  The priest shall examine him, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is leprosy.

• Leviticus 13:9

  When a leprous sore is in a human being, he shall be brought to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:11

  it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

• Leviticus 13:12

  And if the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one with the sore from his head to his feet, as far as the priest’s eyes can see,

• Leviticus 13:13

  the priest shall examine him, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall declare clean the one with the sore; it has all turned white; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:15

  The priest shall examine the raw flesh and declare him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• 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 13:27

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread widely in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• 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 13:42

  But if there is on the bald head or on the bald forehead a reddish white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.

• Leviticus 13:43

  The priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the sore is reddish white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

• Leviticus 13:47

  And when a garment has a mark of leprosy, in a garment of wool or in a garment of linen,

• Leviticus 13:49

  and if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin, it is a mark of leprosy, and it shall be shown to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:51

  He shall examine the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in the skin, for whatever the skin is made for use, the mark is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.

• Leviticus 13:52

  He shall burn the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material of wool or of linen, or any article of skin in which the mark is, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 13:59

  This is the instruction for a mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or in the woven material or in the knitted material, or in any article of skin, for declaring it clean or for declaring it unclean.”

• Leviticus 14:3

  The priest shall go out to outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the leprous sore has been healed in the leper,

• Leviticus 14:7

  He shall sprinkle on the one being purified from the leprosy seven times, and declare him clean, and let go the living bird over the face of the field.

• Leviticus 14:32

  This is the instruction for one who has a leprous sore, whose means do not reach for his purification.”

• Leviticus 14:34

  “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,

• Leviticus 14:44

  the priest shall come and examine it, and if the mark has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

• Leviticus 14:54

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

• Leviticus 14:55

  and for the leprosy of a garment and of a house,

• Leviticus 14:57

  to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the instruction for leprosy.”

• Deuteronomy 24:8

  Be on your guard in a plague of leprosy, taking great care to do according to all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I commanded them, you shall take care to do.

• 2 Kings 5:3

  She said to her mistress, “If only my master were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”

• 2 Kings 5:6

  He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “And now, when this letter comes to you, look, I have sent to you Naaman my servant, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

• 2 Kings 5:7

  And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I Elohim, to put to death and to make alive, that this man sends to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only know, please, and see that he is seeking a quarrel with me.”

• 2 Kings 5:27

  So the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” And he went out from his presence leprous, white as snow.

• 2 Chronicles 26:19

  Uzziah was enraged, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of YHWH, beside the altar of incense.

And 2 more times.