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LEPROSY (IN THE BIBLE) Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is the only sickness whose traditional complex of social, legal, religious, and hagiographical aspects have made its history inseparable from that of the Bible and the Church.
May 17, 2019 · Leprosy in the Bible. Leprosy is a vivid and graphic physical picture of the spiritual defilement of sin. Sin is ugly, loathsome, incurable, and contaminating; it separates men from God and makes them outcasts. The instructions given to the priests in Leviticus 13 help us understand the nature of sin: Sin is inside us, deeper than the skin ...
2 Kings 5:1 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 3, 6, 7, 11 and 27. 2 Kings 5:5 That is, about 750 pounds or about 340 kilograms. 2 Kings 5:5 That is, about 150 pounds or about 69 kilograms. 2 Kings 5:22 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms. 2 Kings 4.
The term “leprosy” (including leper, lepers, leprosy, leprous) occurs 68 times in the Bible—55 times in the Old Testament (Hebrew = tsara’ath) and 13 times in the New Testament (Greek = lepros, lepra). In the Old Testament, the instances of leprosy most likely meant a variety of infectious skin diseases, and even mold and mildew on ...
Leprosy is a bacterial disease that was usually fatal in ancient times. Today, it can be treated with antibiotics. Leprosy was addressed in the Bible, not only in the law, but served as an example of the deadly effects of sin. Just as a leper was declared unclean and banished from the camp of Israel, the law that is our schoolmaster about sin ...
2 Kings 7:3-20. King James Version. 3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the ...
New King James Version. The Ritual for Cleansing Healed Lepers. 14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the [ a]leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest. 3 And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the [ b]leprosy is healed in the leper ...
