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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Leviticus 13:41

And if, in front, his head loseth its hair, though bald in the forehead, he is, clean.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Baldness;   Sanitation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Head;   Leprosy;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baldness;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Itch;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Medicine;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leper;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hair;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baldness;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
King James Version
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
Lexham English Bible
And if he becomes bald from his forehead, his head is bald, he is clean.
New Century Version
If he loses hair from the front of his head and has a bald forehead, he is clean.
New English Translation
If his head is bare on the forehead so that he is balding in front, he is clean.
Amplified Bible
"And if he loses the hair on front of his head, he is bald on the forehead, but he is clean.
New American Standard Bible
"And if his head becomes bald at the front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And if his head lose the heare on the forepart, and be balde before, he is cleane.
Legacy Standard Bible
And if his head becomes bald at the front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.
Complete Jewish Bible
If his hair has fallen off the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; but he is clean.
Darby Translation
and if he have the hair fallen off from the part of the head towards his face, he is forehead-bald: he is clean.
Easy-to-Read Version
A man might lose hair from the sides of his head. He is clean. It is only another kind of baldness.
English Standard Version
And if a man's hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.
George Lamsa Translation
And he whose hair has fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; yet he is clean.
Christian Standard Bible®
Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.
Literal Translation
And if his head grows bald from the corner of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; he is clean.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
If they fall out of his fore heade, then is he fore heade balde & cleane.
American Standard Version
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean.
Bible in Basic English
And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he that hath his heere fallen of on the part of his head towarde his face, is forehead baulde, yet cleane.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.
King James Version (1611)
And he that hath his haire fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead-bald: yet is hee cleane.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if his head should lose the hair in front, he is forehead bald: he is clean.
English Revised Version
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean.
Berean Standard Bible
Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and if heeris fallen fro the forheed, he is ballid,
Young's Literal Translation
and if from the corner of his face his head is polished, he [is] bald of the forehead; he [is] clean.
Update Bible Version
And if his hair falls off from the front part of his head, he is bald [on the] forehead; [yet] he is clean.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face, he [is] forehead-bald; [yet is] he clean.
World English Bible
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
New King James Version
He whose hair has fallen from his forehead, he is bald on the forehead, but he is clean.
New Living Translation
And if he loses hair on his forehead, he simply has a bald forehead; he is still clean.
New Life Bible
If the hair has fallen from the front part of his head so that he has no hair there, he is clean.
New Revised Standard
If he loses the hair from his forehead and temples, he has baldness of the forehead but he is clean.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean.
Revised Standard Version
And if a man's hair has fallen from his forehead and temples, he has baldness of the forehead but he is clean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If his head becomes bald at the front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.

Contextual Overview

38 And when either, man or woman, hath in the skin of their flesh bright spots, - bright spots that are white, 39 then shall the priest take a view and lo! if, in the skin of their flesh, are bright spots that are dull white, dead white spot, it is, that hath broken through in the skin - clean, he is. 40 And, when, any man's, head loseth its hair, though, bald, he is, clean. 41 And if, in front, his head loseth its hair, though bald in the forehead, he is, clean. 42 But, should there be, in the baldness behind, or in the baldness in front, a spot that is reddish white, leprosy broken out, it is, in his baldness behind, or in his baldness in front. 43 So the priest shall view it, and lo! if, the rising-spot, be reddish white in his baldness behind or in his baldness in front, - like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 44 a leprous man, is he, unclean, he is, - unclean, shall the priest pronounce him in his head, is his plague. 45 Now, as for the leper in whom is the plague, His clothes, shall be rent, And, his head, shall be bare, And, his beard, shall he cover, - And, Unclean! Unclean! shall he cry. 46 All the days that the plague is in him, shall he continue unclean, Unclean, he is, - Alone, shall he remain, Outside the camp, shall be his dwelling.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:40 - hair is fallen off his head

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face,.... That is, from the crown of his head towards his forehead and temples, the fore part of his head; and so the Misnic doctors distinguish baldness, which is from the crown of the head descending behind to the channel of the neck; and that here mentioned, which is from the crown of the head descending to his face and forehead, over against the hair above x:

he [is] forehead bald; to distinguish him from him that is bald behind:

[yet is] he clean; as the other: these cases are observed, that it might not be concluded that every man that shed his hair or was bald either before or behind was a leper, because the hair of a leper used to fall off from him; if he had not the other signs of leprosy, and which were the sure and true signs of it before mentioned.

x Misn. Negaim, c. 10. sect. 10.


 
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