King James Version
Leviticus 13:38 in the King James Version says “If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;”
Leviticus 13:38 · KJV
Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. hair: Heb. head is pilled
KJV Study — Public Domain
“If a man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
(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)
“of their flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
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