Lexical Summary tsara: to be struck with leprosy, to be leprous Original Word: צָרַעTransliteration: tsara Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-rah') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be struck with leprosy, to be leprous Meaning: to be struck with leprosy, to be leprous Strong's Concordance leper, leprous A primitive root; to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy -- leper, leprous. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6879. tsara [צָרַע] verb denominative, only in passive, be struck with leprosy, leprous; — Qal Participle passive צָרוּעַ אִישׁ Leviticus 13:44; elsewhere as substantive, = leper, 13:45; 14:3; Numbers 5:2 (all P), Leviticus 22:4 (H). Pu`al Participle מְצֹרָע 2 Samuel 3:29 +, מְצוֺרָע2 Chronicles 26:20; plural מְצֹרָעִים 2 Kings 7:3, 8; feminine מְצֹרַ֫עַת Exodus 4:6 +, מְצֹרָ֑עַת Numbers 12:10; — leprous, of hand Exodus 4:6 (J), of person Numbers 12:10 (twice in verse) (E), 2 Kings 5:27; 2 Chronicles 26:20; מְצֹרָעִים אֲנָשִׁים 2 Kings 7:3; as substantive = leper 2 Samuel 3:29; 2 Kings 5:1, 11; 7:8; 15:5 2 Chronicles 26:21a, 26:21b, 26:23; הַמְּצֹרָע תּוֺרַת Leviticus 14:2. |