Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:21
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, [there be] no white hairs therein, and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin, but [be] somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
But be somewhat dark, or, and be contracted; of which Lev 13:6.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
But if the priest look on it,…. Upon a person in a like case as first described, having had a boil, and that healed, and afterwards a white swelling, or a bright spot in the place of it:
and, behold, [there be] no white hairs therein; not two hairs turned white, as Gersom interprets it:
and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin; the bright spot not lower than the skin; not having got into the flesh, only skin deep: the Targum of Jonathan is, not lower in whiteness than the skin; for the bright spot is described as white, and so the rising or swelling,
Le 13:19;
but [be] somewhat dark; or rather “contracted”; to which spreading is opposed in the next verse; [See comments on Le 13:6];
then the priest shall shut him up seven days; to wait and see whether it will spread or not: a boil and burning, the Jews say, make a man unclean in one week, and by two signs, the white hair, and the spreading; by the white hair, both at the beginning and at the end of the week after dismission, and by spreading at the end of the week after it q.
q Misn. Negaim, c. 3. sect. 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(21) But if the priest.In the absence, however, of these two symptoms, the patient is to be put in quarantine for one week only.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
be = it [be]. somewhat
dark = faint.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
shut him: 1Co 5:5
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 13:21-24. Dark Or, and be contracted. A plague Or, the plague of leprosy, of which he is speaking. A hot burning A burning of fire, by the touch of any hot iron, or burning coals, which naturally makes an ulcer or sore in which the following spot is.