International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Freckled SpotFRECKLED SPOT frek'-'-ld, (bohaq; Septuagint alphos, called in the Revised Version (British and American) "a tetter," and described as a bright shining spot (beharoth lebhenoth):
These white eruptions did not render the person so marked ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 13:39). This form of skin disease is described by Hippocrates as usually of no great importance and indicative of a sluggishness of body; it is probably some form of local psoriasis. There is a cognate modern Arabic word applied to a facial eczematous eruption. For other references to skin diseases, see LEPROSY.
Strong's Hebrew 933. bohaq -- tetter... 1). freckled spot. From an unused root meaning to be pale; white scurf -- freckled spot. << 932, 933. bohaq. 934 >>. Strong's Numbers. /hebrew/933.htm - 5k |
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