STRONGS NUMBER H5597


Word Summary
sappachath: an eruption, scab
Original Word: סַפַחַת
Transliteration: sappachath
Phonetic Spelling: (sap-pakh'-ath)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: an eruption, scab
Meaning: an eruption, scab
Strong's Concordance
scab

From caphach; the mange (as making the hair fall off) -- scab.

see HEBREW caphach

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5597. sappachath

סַמַּ֫חַתnoun feminine eruption, scab, either malignant or harmless; — absoluteס אוֺ ׳שְׂאֵת בַהֶרֵת אוֺLeviticus 13:2; compare 14:56.