Original Word: λέπρα, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: lepra
Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah)
Short Definition: leprosy
Definition: leprosy.

Cognate: 3014 lépra – a deeply infectious, contagious skin disease rendering a person "ceremonially unclean" in Jewish society. To contract this ailment meant the leper was reduced to a social outcast – barred from all the activities at the Temple. See 3015 (lepros).

STRONGS NT 3014: λέπρα

λέπρα, 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)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

leprosy.

From the same as lepis; scaliness, i.e. "leprosy" -- leprosy.

see GREEK lepis

Forms and Transliterations

λεπρα λέπρα λεπρας λέπρας λεπρώσα lepra lépra lepras lépras

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