Easton's Bible Dictionary

LEPROSY

Leprosy: translation

(Heb. tsara'ath, a "smiting," a "stroke," because the disease was regarded as a direct providential infliction). This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the disease from its scaliness. We have the description of the disease, as well as the regulations connected with it, in Lev. 13; 14; Num. 12:10-15, etc. There were reckoned six different circumstances under which it might develop itself, (1) without any apparent cause (Lev. 13:2-8); (2) its reappearance (9-17); (3) from an inflammation (18-28); (4) on the head or chin (29-37); (5) in white polished spots (38, 39); (6) at the back or in the front of the head (40-44).
Lepers were required to live outside the camp or city (Num.5:1-4; 12:10-15, etc.). This disease was regarded as an awful punishment from the Lord (2 Kings 5:7; 2 Chr. 26:20). (See Miriam; Gehazi; Uzziah.)
This disease "begins with specks on the eyelids and on the palms, gradually spreading over the body, bleaching the hair white wherever they appear, crusting the affected parts with white scales, and causing terrible sores and swellings. From the skin the disease eats inward to the bones, rotting the whole body piecemeal." "In Christ's day no leper could live in a walled town, though he might in an open village. But wherever he was he was required to have his outer garment rent as a sign of deep grief, to go bareheaded, and to cover his beard with his mantle, as if in lamentation at his own virtual death. He had further to warn passers-by to keep away from him, by calling out, Unclean! unclean!' nor could he speak to any one, or receive or return a salutation, since in the East this involves an embrace."
That the disease was not contagious is evident from the regulations regarding it (Lev. 13:12, 13, 36; 2 Kings 5:1). Leprosy was "the outward and visible sign of the innermost spiritual corruption; a meet emblem in its small beginnings, its gradual spread, its internal disfigurement, its dissolution little by little of the whole body, of that which corrupts, degrades, and defiles man's inner nature, and renders him unmeet to enter the presence of a pure and holy God" (Maclear's Handbook O.T). Our Lord cured lepers (Matt. 8:2, 3; Mark 1:40-42). This divine power so manifested illustrates his gracious dealings with men in curing the leprosy of the soul, the fatal taint of sin.

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  3. leprosy—leprosy translation nounVERB LEPROSY have LEPROSY NOUN bacillus patient...Collocations dictionary
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  6. leprosy—leprosy translationDisease caused by Mycobacterium leprae an obligate intracellular parasite that survives lysosomal enzyme attack by possessing a waxy coat. Leprosy is a...Dictionary of molecular biology
  7. leprosy—leprosy translation In the context of the medical missions Protestants developed specialized ministries to alleviate the physical and social suffering of leprosy now know...Encyclopedia of Protestantism
  8. leprosy—leprosy translationSynonyms and related wordsAfrican lethargy Asiatic cholera Chagres fever German measles Haverhill fever acne acne vulgaris acute articular rheumatism a...Moby Thesaurus
  9. leprosy—[leprs]проказа...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  10. leprosy—лепра...Англо-русский научно-технический словарь
  11. leprosy—проказа...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  12. leprosy—проказа...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  13. leprosy—лепра проказа...Англо-русский офтальмологический словарь
  14. leprosy—n лепра проказа...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  15. leprosy—leprosy [leprs] nu проказа моральное разложение...Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
  16. leprosy—сущ. проказа to develop leprosy заболеть проказой to have suffer from leprosy страдать проказой...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  17. leprosy—n. проказа...Англо-русский словарь редакция bed
  18. leprosy—лепра...Англо-русский технический словарь
  19. leprosy—n...Англо-украинский словарь
  20. leprosy—проказа...Англо-український словник
  21. leprosy—n мед. лепра проказа moral моральний розклад....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  22. leprosy—[leprs] n мед.лепра проказа moral leprosy моральное разложение...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  23. leprosy—leprosy [leprs] n мед.i лепра проказа imoral моральное разложение...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  24. leprosy—leprs n мед. лепра проказа emmoral моральное разложение...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна