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World English Bible

Leviticus 13:40

"If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hair;   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:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Baldness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
King James Version
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Lexham English Bible
"And if a man becomes bald, his head is bald, he is clean.
New Century Version
"When anyone loses hair from his head and is bald, he is clean.
New English Translation
"When a man's head is bare so that he is balding in back, he is clean.
Amplified Bible
"If a man loses the hair on his head, he is bald, but he is clean.
New American Standard Bible
"Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is only bald; he is clean.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the man whose heare is fallen off his head, and is balde, is cleane.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.
Contemporary English Version
If you become bald on any part of your head, you are still clean.
Complete Jewish Bible
"If a man's hair has fallen from his scalp, he is bald; but he is clean.
Darby Translation
And if a man's hair have fallen off his head, he is bald: he is clean;
Easy-to-Read Version
"A man might begin to lose the hair on his head. It is only baldness, so he is clean.
English Standard Version
"If a man's hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.
George Lamsa Translation
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet he is clean.
Good News Translation
If you lose your hair at the back or the front of your head, this does not make you unclean.
Christian Standard Bible®
“If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.
Literal Translation
And when a man's head grows bald, he is bald, he is clean.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan the hayres fall out of the heade of a man or a woman, so that he is balde, the same is cleane.
American Standard Version
And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Bible in Basic English
And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the man whose heere is fallen of his head, he is baulde, yet cleane.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
King James Version (1611)
And the man whose haire is fallen off his head, he is bald: yet is hee cleane.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if any one’s head should lose the hair, he is only bald, he is clean.
English Revised Version
And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Berean Standard Bible
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man of whos heed heeris fleten awei, is calu, and clene;
Young's Literal Translation
`And when a man's head [is] polished, he [is] bald, he [is] clean;
Update Bible Version
And if a man's hair falls off his head, he is bald; [yet] he is clean.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the man whose hair hath fallen off his head, he [is] bald; [yet is] he clean.
New King James Version
"As for the man whose hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, but he is clean.
New Living Translation
"If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean.
New Life Bible
"If a man's hair has fallen out and he has no hair on his head, he is clean.
New Revised Standard
If anyone loses the hair from his head, he is bald but he is clean.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any man's, head loseth its hair, though, bald, he is, clean.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and clean:
Revised Standard Version
"If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald but he is clean.
THE MESSAGE
"When a man loses his hair and goes bald, he is clean. If he loses his hair from his forehead, he is bald and he is clean. But if he has a reddish-white sore on scalp or forehead, it means a serious skin disease is breaking out. The priest is to examine it; if the swollen sore on his scalp or forehead is reddish-white like the appearance of the sore of a serious skin disease, he has a serious skin disease and is unclean. The priest has to pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.

Contextual Overview

38 "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots; 39 then the priest shall examine them; and, behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean. 40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. 41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean. 42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. 45 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' 46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hair is fallen off his head: Heb. head is pilled, Leviticus 13:41, Song of Solomon 5:11, Romans 6:12, Romans 6:19, Romans 8:10, Galatians 4:13

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head,.... That is, from the back part of his head, from the crown of his head toward his neck behind:

he [is] bald; in that spot of the head where the hair is fallen off; and it denotes such a baldness as is occasioned by that, for it signifies one that had hair, but it is fallen off; whereas the baldness after spoken of is thought by some to be of such who never had any hair; though others will have it, that this intends a person bald all over; but it seems plain from what follows, that it designs one whose hair was fallen off behind, and was bald on that part only; and it may be observed, that this is only said of a man, not of a woman, because, as Aben Ezra remarks, she has much moisture in her, and therefore her head does not become bald; hair being like to grass, which flourishes in moist places:

[yet is] he clean; from the leprosy, or from the scalls, as Jarchi observes, because he is not judged by the signs of the head and beard, which are the place of hair, but by the signs of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, i.e. by the raw flesh and spreading.


 
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