Lexical Summary lepra: leprosy Original Word: λέπραTransliteration: lepra Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: leprosy Meaning: leprosy Strong's Concordance leprosy. From the same as lepis; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy" -- leprosy. see GREEK lepis Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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, |
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