3014. lepra
Lexicon
lepra: Leprosy

Original Word: λέπρα
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: lepra
Pronunciation: LEP-rah
Phonetic Spelling: (lep'-rah)
KJV: leprosy
NASB: leprosy
Word Origin: [from lepo "to peel"]

1. scaliness, i.e. "leprosy"

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
leprosy.

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

see GREEK lepis

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).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from lepis
Definition
leprosy
NASB Translation
leprosy (4).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3014: λέπρα

λέπρα, λέπρας, (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)

Forms and Transliterations
λεπρα λέπρα λεπρας λέπρας λεπρώσα lepra lépra lepras lépras
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 8:3 N-NFS
GRK: αὐτοῦ ἡ λέπρα
NAS: And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
KJV: immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
INT: his leprosy

Mark 1:42 N-NFS
GRK: αὐτοῦ ἡ λέπρα καὶ ἐκαθαρίσθη
NAS: Immediately the leprosy left
KJV: immediately the leprosy departed
INT: of him the leprosy and he was cleansed

Luke 5:12 N-GFS
GRK: ἀνὴρ πλήρης λέπρας ἰδὼν δὲ
NAS: covered with leprosy; and when he saw
KJV: a man full of leprosy: who seeing
INT: a man full of leprosy having seen moreover

Luke 5:13 N-NFS
GRK: εὐθέως ἡ λέπρα ἀπῆλθεν ἀπ'
NAS: And immediately the leprosy left
KJV: immediately the leprosy departed
INT: immediately the leprosy departed from

Strong's Greek 3014
4 Occurrences


λέπρα — 3 Occ.
λέπρας — 1 Occ.

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