What Does Leviticus 13:10 Mean in the King James?
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The mark is read through several signs together: a raised place, hair turned white, and living flesh within it.
THE MEANING
The verse presents a body under examination, with a raised white place, changed hair, and living flesh all visible at once. “Quick” means living here, making the flesh’s aliveness part of what the priest sees and judges.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that a white mark alone settles the condition: the verse names a cluster of physical signs as the basis for discernment.
THE ROOT
חַי
chai
GROWS FROM
חיה
To live, be alive; life.
The Hebrew behind “quick” names the flesh as living, so the sign is not just a color change but living tissue within the raised area. The verse makes that active life part of what is seen and judged.
ALSO GROWS
chayah: To live, be alive.
חָיָה
The verb makes the life sense of “quick” explicit: the flesh is alive.
chayyim: Life.
חַיִּים
This noun carries the same root’s life sense, illuminating why the flesh’s aliveness matters in the examination.
שְׂאֵת
se’et
GROWS FROM
נשא
To lift, carry, or bear.
The word for “rising” grows from the verb for lifting or bearing, giving the raised place a sense of elevation. The same root reaches from lifting to what is borne.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This verb shares the root and makes the raisedness of the mark concrete.
massa: A load or burden.
מַשָּׂא
This branch shows how the root’s sense of lifting extends to what is carried.
THE PATTERN
A condition is discerned through its signs read together, not by one surface impression alone.
And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.THE THREAD
But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.The same Hebrew phrase, בָּשָׂר חַי (basar chai, “living flesh”), appears in the diagnostic continuation. It shows that the living flesh named in 13:10 carries weight in how the body is read.
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