Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:42
And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
Sore – Rather, stroke. It is the same word which elsewhere in this and the next chapter is rendered plague.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
It is a sign that such baldness came not from age or any accident, but from the leprosy.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And if there be,…. Or, “but if there be”, or, “when there shall be” y, or shall appear to be:
in the bald head, or in the bald forehead, a white reddish sore; white and red mixed, as the Targum of Jonathan, having something of both colours, neither a clear white nor thorough red; though, according to Bochart, it should be rendered “a white sore exceeding bright”;
[See comments on Le 13:19];
it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or in his bald forehead; the signs of which were raw flesh and spreading; so it is said in the Misnah z,
“those two sorts of baldness defile in two weeks, by two signs, by quick raw flesh and by spreading;”
if there was the bright spot and no quick flesh, then he was to be shut up seven days, and looked upon at the end of them; and if there was either quick flesh or a spreading, he was pronounced unclean, but if neither, he was shut up seven days more; and if either of the above signs appeared he was pronounced unclean, if not he was set free.
y “sin autem”, V. L. “quum autem”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator Drusius. z Ut supra. (Misn. Negaim, c. 10. sect. 10.)
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
But if a white reddish mole was formed upon the bald place before or behind, it was leprosy breaking out upon it, and was to be recognised by the fact that the rising of the mole had the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body. In that case the person was unclean, and to be pronounced so by the priest. “On his head is his plague of leprosy,” i.e., he has it in his head.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(42) And if there be in the bald head.Better, But if there be in the bald backhead. But if a reddish-white eruption appears either in the hinder or fore part of the bald head, resembling that which arises in the place of healed boils (see Lev. 13:19-24), then it indicates the existence of leprosy.
In his bald head.Better, in his bald backhead.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
42. A white, reddish sore This alone was a sure token of the dreadful disease. Hence no seven days’ quarantine was enjoined; he is utterly unclean. Nevertheless the ancient rabbins inferred from the clause, “It is like leprosy in the skin of the flesh,” that all the criteria specified in the former case are to be applied to this, and that the quarantine of two weeks is to be enforced on the patient.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 13:42. A white reddish sore Houbigant constantly renders this, partly white, and partly red, which is the colour of flesh infected with leprosy.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Reciprocal: Lev 14:37 – General