Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 13:51
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin; the plague [is] a fretting leprosy; it [is] unclean.
51. a fretting leprosy ] i.e. malignant.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
A fretting leprosy – i. e. a malignant or corroding leprosy. What was the nature of the leprosy in clothing, which produced greenish or reddish spots, cannot be precisely determined. It was most likely destructive mildew, perhaps of more than one kind.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day,…. To see whether there is any alteration in it in that space of time:
if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin; the green and red spot be spread more and more in either of them, whether the colour remains the same or not, be changed, the green into red, or the red into green, yet if there was a spreading, it was a sign of leprosy. According to the Jewish canon s, if the plague was green and spread red, or red and spread green, it was unclean; that is, as Bartenora t explains it, if it was red in the size of a bean, and at the end of the week the red had spread itself to green; or if at the beginning it was green like a bean, and at the end of the week had spread itself to the size of a shekel, and the root or spread of it was become red;
the plague [is] a fretting leprosy; according to Jarchi, a sharp and pricking one, like a thorn; which signification the word has in
Eze 28:24. Ben Gersom explains it, which brings a curse, corruption, and oldness into the thing in which it is; an old “irritated, exasperated” leprosy, as Bochart u, from the use of the word in the Arabic tongue, translates it:
it [is] unclean; and the garment or thing in which it is.
s Misn. Negaim, c. 11. sect. 3, 4. t In ib. u Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 45. col. 493.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(51) And he shall look on the plague.If at the end of the week, when the priest examines it again, he finds that the distemper has spread, it undoubtedly indicates malignant leprosy. Here, again, the symptom of spreading is the same in the garment as in the human being. (See Lev. 13:5-6; Lev. 13:8, &c.) The leprous garment, like a human leper, makes everything and everybody unclean by contact with it, or by coming into the house where it remains.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
fretting = rankling, only of what is malignant: occurs only here, Lev 13:52; Lev 14:14, and Eze 28:24.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
fretting leprosy: Lev 14:44
Reciprocal: Lev 13:48 – thing made of Lev 14:39 – General