King James Version
Leviticus 13:41 in the King James Version says “And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.”
Leviticus 13:41 · KJV
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
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“off from the part”
H6285properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e., direction, region, extremity
“toward his face”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“And he that hath his hair fallen”
H4803to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen
“of his head”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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