Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:49
And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall be showed unto the priest:
And if the plague be greenish or reddish the garment, or in the skin,…. Either of these two colours were signs of leprosy in garments; but it is not agreed whether stronger or weaker colours are designed; the radicals of both these words being doubled, according to some, and particularly Aben Ezra, lessen the sense of them; and so our translators understand it; but, according to Ben Gersom, the signification is increased thereby, and the meaning is, if it be exceeding green or exceeding red; and this is evidently the sense of the Misnah p; garments are defiled by green in greens, and by red in reds, that is, by the greenest and reddest; the green, the commentators say q, is like that of the wings of peacocks and leaves of palm trees, and the red like crimson or scarlet; and now these garments or skins, in which the green or red spots appeared, must be white, and not coloured or dyed: the canon runs thus r; skins and garments dyed are not defiled with plagues (of leprosy); a garment whose warp is dyed, and its woof white, or its woof dyed, and its warp white, all goes according to the sight; that is, according to what colour to the eye most prevails, whether white or dyed:
either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of the skin; the same held good of these as of a garment, or anything else made of them:
it [is] a plague of leprosy; it has the signs of one, and gives great suspicion that it is one:
and shall be shewed unto the priest; by the person in whose possession it is, that it may be examined and judged of whether it is a leprosy or no.
p Misn. Negaim, c. 11. sect. 4. q Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Edaiot, c. 7. sect. 8. r Misn. ut supra, (c.11.) sect. 3, 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(49) And if the plague be greenish.If one of
these symptoms manifests itself in a woollen or linen garment, or in a leathern vessel, it must forthwith be shown to the priest. The Jewish canons define the colour of the green symptom to be like that of herbs, and that of the red to be like fair crimson.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
thing of skin: Heb. vessel, or instrument
it is: Lev 13:2
Reciprocal: Lev 14:37 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
13:49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of {o} skin; it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
(o) Whether it be garment, vessel, or instrument.