Strong's Concordance lepra: leprosy Original Word: λέπρα, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: lepra Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah) Definition: leprosy Usage: leprosy. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 3014 lépra – a deeply infectious, contagious skin disease rendering a person "ceremonially unclean" in Jewish society. To contract this ailment meant the leper was reduced to a social outcast – barred from all the activities at the Temple. See 3015 (lepros). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom lepis Definition leprosy NASB Translation leprosy (4). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3014: λέπραλέπρα, λέπρας, ἡ (from the adjective λεπρός, which see), Hebrew צָרַעַת, leprosy (literally, morbid scaliness), a most offensive, annoying, dangerous, cutaneous disease, the virus of which generally pervades the whole body; common in Egypt and the East (Leviticus 13f): Matthew 8:3; Mark 1:42; Luke 5:12f (Herodotus, Theophrastus, Josephus, Plutarch, others) (Cf. Orelli in Herzog 2 under the word Aussatz; Greenhill in Bible Educator 4:76f, 174f; Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah i., 492ff; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance leprosy. From the same as lepis; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy" -- leprosy. see GREEK lepis Forms and Transliterations λεπρα λέπρα λεπρας λέπρας λεπρώσα lepra lépra lepras léprasLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Matthew 8:3 N-NFSGRK: αὐτοῦ ἡ λέπρα NAS: And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. KJV: immediately his leprosy was cleansed. INT: his leprosy Mark 1:42 N-NFS Luke 5:12 N-GFS Luke 5:13 N-NFS Strong's Greek 3014 |