Leviticus 13:41
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 in other translations
| BSB | Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean. |
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| WEB | If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, his forehead is bald. He is clean. |
| ASV | And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean. |
| YLT | and if from the corner of his face his head is polished, he is bald of the forehead; he is clean. |
| DARBY | and if he have the hair fallen off from the part of the head towards his face, he is forehead-bald: he is clean. |
| BBE | And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean. |
| Webster | And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean. |
What does Leviticus 13:41 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:40-41
40-41. bald ... forehead bald--The falling off of the hair, when the baldness commences in the back part of the head, is another symptom which creates a suspicion of leprosy. But it was not of itself a decisive sign unless taken in connection with other tokens, such as a "sore of a reddish white color" [Le 13:43]. The Hebrews as well as other Orientals were accustomed to distinguish between the forehead baldness…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 13:18-44
The priest is told what judgment to make, if there were any appearance of a leprosy in old sores; and such is the danger of those who having escaped the pollutions of the world are again entangled therein. Or, in a burn by accident, ver. #(24). The burning of strife and contention often occasions the rising and breaking out of that corruption, which proves that men are unclean. Human life lies exposed to many…
Leviticus 13:41 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Leviticus 13:40
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
- Leviticus 13:41
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 13:42
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.
Leviticus 13:41 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y si á la parte de su rostro se le pelare la cabeza, es calvo por delante, pero limpio. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et s’il a perdu les cheveux de sa tête du côté du visage, il est chauve par-devant: il est pur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und wenn ihm das Haupthaar gegen das Gesicht zu ausfällt, so ist er ein Kahlkopf: er ist rein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et si a fronte ceciderint pili, recalvaster et mundus est. |