Leviticus 13:47

The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
garment	וְהַבֶּ֕גֶד ve.ha.Be.ged	H899	a covering · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
plague	נֶ֣גַע Ne.ga'	H5061	a blow (figuratively · noun, common masculine singular construct
leprosy	צָרָ֑עַת tza.Ra.'at	H6883	leprosy · noun, common feminine singular absolute
woollen	צֶ֔מֶר Tze.mer	H6785	wool · noun, common masculine singular absolute
garment	בְּבֶ֣גֶד be.Ve.ged	H899	a covering · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
linen	פִּשְׁתִּֽים pish.Tim	H6593	linen (i.e. the thread · noun, common masculine plural absolute
garment	בְּבֶ֥גֶד be.Ve.ged	H899	a covering · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct

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Cross-references

Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Isaiah 3:16-24 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing…
Isaiah 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act o…
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like t…
Ezekiel 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things sh…
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:47–end

This is the law concerning the plague of leprosy in a garment, whether linen or woollen. A leprosy in a garment, with discernible indications of it, the colour changed by it, the garment fretted, the nap worn off, and this in some one particular part of the garment, and increasing when it was shut up, and not to be got out by washing is a thing which to us now is altogether unaccountable. The learned confess that it was a sign and a miracle in Israel, an extraordinary punishment inflicted by the divine power, as a token of great displeasure against a person or family. 1. The process was much the same with that concerning a leprous person. The garment suspected to be tainted was not to be bur…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:47

The garment . . . that the . . . leprosy is in--It is well known that infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, measles, the plague, are latently imbibed and carried by the clothes. But the language of this passage clearly indicates a disease to which clothes themselves were subject, and which was followed by effects on them analogous to those which malignant leprosy produces on the human body--for similar regulations were made for the rigid inspection of suspected garments by a priest as for the examination of a leprous person. It has long been conjectured and recently ascertained by the use of a lens, that the leprous condition of swine is produced by myriads of minute insects engendered…

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Adam Clarke on Leviticus 13:47

The garment also - The whole account here seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by this contagion; and hence it is likely that it was occasioned by a species of small animals, which we know to be the cause of the itch; these, by breeding in the garments, must necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i. e., corrode a, portion of the finer parts, after the manner of moths, for their nourishment. See Lev 13:52 (note).

John Gill

The Church Fathers

When speaking of the leprosy of clothing and other things pertaining to human uses, what do these words of Scripture mean: Either in a woolen dress or in a gown of bast or in the worsted or in the wool or in the things of linen or things of wool, when I had said before: in a woolen dress or in a gown of bast? Because a thing of tow is also linen. Or did the author want to talk about clothes and here about anything else wool or linen? The covers of the juices are not dressed, although they are made of wool; Neither the nets are clothed, though they are made of linen. Therefore, he first spoke in a concrete way about the dresses, and then in a general way about all things of wool and linen.
— Augustine of Hippo, QUESTIONS ON LEVITICUS, Q. 49 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

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Dictionary and topics

Dress — (1.) Materials used. The earliest and simplest an apron of fig-leaves sewed together (Gen. 3:7); then skins of animals (3:21). Elijah’s dress was probably the skin of a sheep (2 Kings 1:8). The…
Leprosy — (Heb. tsara’ath, a “smiting,” a “stroke,” because the disease was regarded as a direct providential infliction). This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the…
Linen — (1.) Heb., pishet, pishtah, denotes “flax,” of which linen is made (Isa. 19:9); wrought flax, i.e., “linen cloth”, Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; Deut. 22:11. Flax was early cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31),…
Purification — The process by which a person unclean, according to the Levitical law, and thereby cut off from the sanctuary and the festivals, was restored to the enjoyment of all these privileges. The great…
Sheep — Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a result of…
Weaving — The art of weaving appears to be coeval with the first dawning of civilization. We find it practiced with great skill by the Egyptians at a very early period; The vestures of fine linen” such as…
Weaving, weavers — Weaving was an art practised in very early times (Ex. 35:35). The Egyptians were specially skilled in it (Isa. 19:9; Ezek. 27:7), and some have regarded them as its inventors. In the wilderness, the…
Wool — One of the first material used for making woven cloth (Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; 19:19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the priests (Deut. 18:4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a…
Dress · Ceremonial purifi — Ceremonial purifi
Garments · Liable to plague and leprosy — Liable to plague and leprosy

Leviticus 13:47

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:47–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:47

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 13:47

John Gill

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 13:47

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:47–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:47

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 13:47

John Gill

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 13:44-57

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 13:47-52

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 13:47-59

Rashi on Leviticus 13:46