Strong's Concordance
lepra: leprosy
Original Word: λέπρα, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: lepra
Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah)
Short Definition: leprosy
Definition: leprosy.
HELPS Word-studies
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).
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,
