צָרַע tsâraʻ — to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy
Translated in the KJV as leper, leprous.
a primitive root; to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy.
tsâraʻ in each stem
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 15
And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 5
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
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.
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›