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title: נֶתֶק — scab · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֶתֶק (5424), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: scab. BDB 1906: n.m. scab. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֶתֶק

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«נֶתֶק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scab** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 5424 · **BDB:** נֶ֫תֶק

### Glosses

scall (10); the.scall (3); \[is\].a.scall (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scab [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5424/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. scab [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5424/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 13:32 scab, an eruption of skin, on head or in beard, causing suspicion of leprosy (lit. a tearing off, i.e. what one is inclined to scratch or tear away, cf. scabies from scabere, Krätze from kratzen, etc., v. Di Lv 13:30);—נ׳ abs. Lv 13:30, 32(×2), 33, 34(×2), 35, 36, 37(×2); נָתֶ֑ק 14:54; נֶגַע הַנֶּתֶק 13:31(×2) (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֶתֶק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5424/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 13:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.35/)

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וְאִם־פָּשֹׂ֥ה יִפְשֶׂ֛ה הַנֶּ֖תֶק בָּע֑וֹר אַחֲרֵ֖י טָהֳרָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and if truly.(spread) it.will.spread the scall in the skin after purification his

*JPS 1917:* But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing,

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[Leviticus 14:54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.54/)

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זֹ֖את הַתּוֹרָ֑ה לְכָל־נֶ֥גַע הַצָּרַ֖עַת וְלַנָּֽתֶק׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the legal.\[procedure\] to every (the).plague of.(the) serious.skin.disease and to (the) scall

*JPS 1917:* This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall;

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