What Does Leviticus 13:18 Mean in the King James?

The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,

Leviticus 13:18 · KJV

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

Here healing is release: the flesh does not need to be replaced for the boil’s hold to let go.

THE MEANING

The place in your flesh where the boil was can now be healed; its history and its changed condition belong in one present reality. Healing registers as a real release in the body, not the erasure of the body’s past.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Healing means the wound must vanish from the story.

THE ROOT

וְנִרְפָּא

wə-nirpā

GROWS FROM

רפא

To heal, cure, or restore.

“is healed” in this verse is wə-nirpā. The word comes from ⁨רפא⁩ (rapha, heal); its close sound-shape ⁨רפה⁩ (raphah, release or let your hands drop) lets healing be heard as the loosening of illness’s hold. The flesh remains, but what held it in illness lets go.

ALSO GROWS

rophe: Healer or physician.

רֹפֵא

This branch names the healer, keeping healing connected to a source of repair rather than to the concealment of a wound.

refu’ah: Healing or cure.

רְפוּאָה

This branch names the process or result of healing, making the changed condition of the flesh part of the same root family.

THE PATTERN

Healing changes the condition of a wound without needing its history to disappear.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Psalm 147:3 · KJVHealing reaches what is broken and binds up wounds that remain part of the person’s story.

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Jeremiah 30:17 · KJVRestored health and healed wounds answer the injury without pretending it never happened.

And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.

Luke 17:14 · KJVThe changed condition becomes visible as the people go, and the priests are told to see it.

THE THREAD

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Psalm 147:3 · KJV

The Hebrew word ⁨הָרֹפֵא⁩ (hā-rōfē, the one who heals) in this verse comes from the same root, ⁨רפא⁩ (rapha, heal), as “is healed” in Leviticus. The root links a healed place in the flesh with wounds bound up in the heart.

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