Leviticus 13 · Verse 44

Leviticus 13:44

He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus 13:44, King James Version

Leviticus 13:44 in other translations

BSBthe man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.
WEBhe is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
ASVhe is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
YLThe is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest doth pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
DARBYhe is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his sore is in his head.
BBEHe is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.
WebsterHe is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

What does Leviticus 13:44 mean?

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…

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Leviticus 13:44 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִישׁ\־'ish-[is] a personH376
צָר֥וּעַtza.Ru.a'[who] has a serious skin diseaseH6879
ה֖וּאhu'heH1931
טָמֵ֣אta.Me'[is] uncleanH2931
ה֑וּאHu'heH1931
טַמֵּ֧אta.Me'surely <declare unclean>H2930
יְטַמְּאֶ֛נּוּye.tam.me.'E.nuhe will declare unclean himH2930
הַכֹּהֵ֖ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
בְּרֹאשׁ֥וֹbe.ro.Sho[is] on head hisH7218
נִגְעֽוֹ\׃nig.'Oplague hisH5061

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Cross references for Leviticus 13:44

  • Matthew 6:23

    But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

  • Job 36:14

    They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

  • 2 John 1:8-10

    Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

  • 2 Peter 2:1-2

    But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

  • Isaiah 1:5

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

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utterly unclean.
Job 36:14; Mt 6:23; 2Pe 2:1,2; 2Jo 1:8-10
his plague.
Isa 1:5

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Context

  • Leviticus 13:43

    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;

  • Leviticus 13:44

    He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

  • Leviticus 13:45

    And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

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Leviticus 13:44 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Leproso es, es inmundo; el sacerdote lo dará luego por inmundo; en su cabeza tiene su llaga.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
c’est un homme lépreux, il est impur; le sacrificateur le déclarera entièrement impur: sa plaie est en sa tête.
German
Elberfelder 1871
so ist er ein aussätziger Mann: Er ist unrein; der Priester soll ihn für gänzlich unrein erklären; sein Übel ist an seinem Haupte.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quicumque ergo maculatus fuerit lepra, et separatus est ad arbitrium sacerdotis,