tsara · have leprosy

What it means

tsara (צָרַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “have leprosy”.

Have tsaraat ("leprosy"): a skin disease that made a person unclean (Leviticus 13). It is not exactly the disease called leprosy 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. To have a skin disease that made one unclean.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• leprous ×12
• leper ×5
• lepers ×2
• leprosy ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×6
• 2 Chronicles×4

• Exodus 4:6

  YHWH also said to him, “Please put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, look, his hand was leprous, like snow.

• Leviticus 13:44

  he is a leprous man; he is unclean; the priest shall surely declare him unclean; his sore is on his head.

• Leviticus 13:45

  And the leper who has the sore —his garments shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall hang loose, and he shall cover himself up to the mustache and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

• Leviticus 14:2

  “This shall be the instruction for the leper on the day of his purification: he shall be brought to the priest.

• 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 22:4

  No man of the offspring of Aaron who is leprous or has a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything unclean by a dead person, or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out,

• Numbers 5:2

  “Command the sons of Israel to send out of the camp everyone with leprosy, and everyone with a discharge, and everyone who is unclean through a corpse.

• Numbers 12:10

  And the cloud withdrew from over the tent, and look, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look, she was leprous.

• 2 Samuel 3:29

  May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be cut off from the house of Joab one who has a discharge or a leper or one who leans on a staff or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks bread.”

• 2 Kings 5:1

  Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man before his master and highly regarded, because through him YHWH had given victory to Aram. The man was a mighty man of valor, but leprous.

• 2 Kings 5:11

  Naaman was angry and went away and said, “Look, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out and stand and call on the name of YHWH his Elohim, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leprous man.’

• 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 Kings 7:3

  There were four men, lepers, at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

• 2 Kings 7:8

  These lepers came to the edge of the camp and went into one tent and ate and drank, and they carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they came back and went into another tent and carried things from there and went and hid them.

• 2 Kings 15:5

  YHWH struck the king, and he was a leper until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house; and Jotham the son of the king was over the house, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 26:20

  Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and look, he was leprous on his forehead. They rushed him out of there, and he himself also hurried to go out, because YHWH had struck him.

• 2 Chronicles 26:21

  Uzziah the king was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house, leprous, for he was cut off from the house of YHWH; and Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 26:23

  Uzziah lay down with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is leprous.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place.

And 2 more times.