Word Summary
lepra: leprosy
Original Word: λέπραTransliteration: lepra
Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: leprosy
Meaning: leprosy
Strong's Concordance
leprosy.
From the same as lepis; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy" -- leprosy.
see GREEK lepis
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3014: λέπραλέπρα,
λέπρας,
ἡ (from the adjective
λεπρός, which see), Hebrew
צָרַעַת,
leprosy (literally, morbid
scaliness), a most offensive, annoying, dangerous, cutaneous disease, the virus of which generally pervades the whole body; common in Egypt and the East (
Leviticus 13f):
Matthew 8:3;
Mark 1:42;
Luke 5:12f (
Herodotus,
Theophrastus,
Josephus,
Plutarch, others) (Cf. Orelli in
Herzog 2 under the word Aussatz; Greenhill in
Bible Educator 4:76f, 174f; Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah i., 492ff; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia,
under the word)