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title: בַּהֶרֶת — brightness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַּהֶרֶת (934), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: brightness. BDB 1906: n.f. brightness, bright spot. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַּהֶרֶת

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«בַּהֶרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **brightness** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 934 · **BDB:** בַּהֶ֫רֶת

### Glosses

spot (5); a.bright.spot (3); bright.spots (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

brightness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/934/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. brightness, bright spot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/934/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brightness, bright spot, of eruption on skin (NH id., Aramaic בַּהְרָא)—בּ׳ abs. Lv 13:2 + 7 times; בֶּהָ֑רֶת Lv 14:56; pl. abs. בֶּהָרוֹת Lv 13:38, 39;—bright spot (sore, scar, etc.), clean or unclean Lv 14:56; following a burn (from fire) Lv 13:24, 25, 26, 28; possible beginning of leprosy Lv 13:2, 4, 19, 23; but possibly a (passing) eruption מִסְפַּחַת v 6; or due to a boil שְׁחִין v 19, 23;—due to בֹּהַק (q.v.) Lv 13:38, 39.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַּהֶרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/934/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 14:56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.56/)

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וְלַשְׂאֵ֥ת וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת וְלַבֶּהָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and to (the) swelling and to.(the) flaking skin and to.(the) bright spot

*JPS 1917:* and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;

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[Leviticus 13:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.38/)

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וְאִישׁ֙ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְעוֹר־בְּשָׂרָ֖ם בֶּהָרֹ֑ת בֶּהָרֹ֖ת לְבָנֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and a.man or a.woman (dm) it.will.be on the.skin their.flesh their bright.spots bright.spots white

*JPS 1917:* And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;

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