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# leper

«leper» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who has leprosy, an illness of the skin and nerves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a leper, lepers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who has leprosy, an illness of the skin and nerves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#m1)

2) (Bible) In Bible times lepers had to live apart and call out «Unclean!»; Jesus touched and healed lepers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#m2)

3) (figurative) A person that others avoid or reject: «He was treated like a leper.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A leper was brought to the priest for examination and, if found unclean, lived outside the camp until healed and cleansed. Interpretation: The Rabbis taught that this disease came as a sign for evil speech, and the priest, not a doctor, judged it. In the primary lessons: In religion lessons Jesus healing ten lepers, with only one coming back to say thank you, teaches gratitude; touching the leper shows compassion for outcasts. Today people prefer to say «a person with leprosy», because «leper» can be hurtful. Phrases: «treated like a leper», «the ten lepers», «leper colony».

### examples

- This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest. (Torah LEV.14.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x1)
- 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; (Torah LEV.14.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x2)
- What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. (Torah LEV.22.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x3)
- And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. (Prophets 2KI.15.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x4)
- The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.' And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. (Prophets 2KI.5.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x5)
- So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said: 'He is a leper'; and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. (Writings 2CH.26.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x6)
- Jesus healed ten lepers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x7)
- Only one leper came back to thank Jesus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x8)
- Jesus touched the leper, and he was healed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x9)
- In old times lepers lived outside the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x10)
- After the argument he felt like a leper at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x11)
- Father Damien worked in a leper colony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x12)
- This king was a leper, and all his doctors had been unable to cure him, when a very clever physician came to his court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/#x13)

### note

Countable. The illness is leprosy. Today «a person with leprosy» is kinder and more correct. Do not confuse with «leopard» (big spotted cat).

### In the corpora

- [This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.371/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.