Word study
Rash
7 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “rash”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
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How often each original word is translated “rash” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- מִסְפַּחַת mispachathid.translated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H4556Noun · Translated: rash 3Full study and all 3 verses →
Leviticus 13:6 The priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a rash. The person must wash his clothes and be clean.
Leviticus 13:7 But if the rash spreads further on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.
- סַפַּחַת sappachatheruption, scabtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H5597Noun · Translated: rash 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Leviticus 13:2 “When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.
Leviticus 14:56 and for a swelling, rash, or spot,
- גָּרָב gârâbitch, scabtranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H1618Noun · Translated: festering rash 2, scabs 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Leviticus 21:20 or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
Leviticus 22:22 You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.
- מִבְטָא mibṭârash utterancetranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H4008Noun · Translated: rash promise 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Numbers 30:6 If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,
Numbers 30:8 But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
- בֹּהַק bôhaqwhite scurftranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H933Noun · Translated: harmless rash 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Leviticus 13:39 the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.
- לוּעַ lûaswallow, swallow downtranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H3886Verb · Translated: rash 1, gulp 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Job 6:3 For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas — no wonder my words have been rash.
- מָהַר mâharhastentranslated this way 1 time of its 66 uses · Strong’s H4116Verb · Translated: quickly 20, hurried 9, Hurry 6, swift 4Full study and all 61 verses →
Isaiah 32:4 The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.
Greek words (New Testament)
- προπετής propetḗsimpulsive, rash, recklesstranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4312Adjective · Translated: rash 1, reckless 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Acts 19:36 Since these things are undeniable, you ought to be calm and not do anything rash.
How to study a word well
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- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.