King James Version
Leviticus 13:18 in the King James Version says “The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,”
Leviticus 13:18 · KJV
Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
“also in which”
H3588(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and is healed”
H7495properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e., (figuratively) to cure
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