Lexicon lepra: leprosy Original Word: λέπρα, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: lepra Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah) Short Definition: leprosy Definition: leprosy. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3014 lépra – a deeply infectious, contagious skin disease rendering a person "ceremonially unclean" in Jewish society. To contract this ailment meant the leper was reduced to a social outcast – barred from all the activities at the Temple. See 3015 (lepros). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom lepisDefinitionleprosy NASB Translationleprosy (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3014: λέπραλέπρα, λέπρας, ἡ (from the adjective λεπρός, which see), Hebrew צָרַעַת, leprosy (literally, morbid scaliness), a most offensive, annoying, dangerous, cutaneous disease, the virus of which generally pervades the whole body; common in Egypt and the East ( Leviticus 13f): Matthew 8:3; Mark 1:42; Luke 5:12f ( Herodotus, Theophrastus, Josephus, Plutarch, others) (Cf. Orelli in Herzog 2 under the word Aussatz; Greenhill in Bible Educator 4:76f, 174f; Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah i., 492ff; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word)
Strong's leprosy. From the same as lepis; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy" -- leprosy. see GREEK lepis |
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