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# leprous

«leprous» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Having leprosy, or the skin disease described in the Torah** — 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

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Having leprosy, or the skin disease described in the Torah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leprous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Leprous means afflicted with tzaraat, shown by white skin, as with Moses' hand and Miriam. Interpretation: Tradition reads these as signs from God: Moses' hand as a warning about speech, Miriam's as a punishment for speaking against Moses.

### examples

- he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head. (Torah LEV.13.44, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leprous/#x1)
- And when the cloud was removed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam; and, behold, she was leprous. (Torah NUM.12.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leprous/#x2)
- And the LORD said furthermore unto him: 'Put now thy hand into thy bosom.' And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. (Torah EXO.4.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leprous/#x3)
- Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said one to another: 'Why sit we here until we die? (Prophets 2KI.7.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leprous/#x4)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.354/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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