What Does Leviticus 13:29 Mean in the King James?
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
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 Hebrew word for “plague” grows from the root for touch or strike, naming a mark that has come upon a particular place on the body.
THE MEANING
A bodily mark appears on the head or beard, and the verse names its location precisely. That specific place becomes the starting point for examining what is present.
THE ROOT
נֶגַע
negaʿ
GROWS FROM
נגע
To touch, reach, come upon, or strike.
The word translated “plague” shares its root with the verb for touching or striking. It presents the condition as a mark that has come upon the body, then names exactly where it appears: the head or beard.
ALSO GROWS
nagaʿ: To touch, reach, or strike.
נָגַע
This verb gives “plague” its sense of a mark or stroke that has come upon the body.
naguaʿ: Affected or stricken.
נָגוּעַ
This related form keeps the connection between affliction and something that has touched or struck.
THE PATTERN
A condition is discerned by examining its observable signs and location.
Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.THE THREAD
Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.Verse 30 repeats נֶגַע (negaʿ, “plague”) and gives observable criteria for the mark: whether it appears deeper than the skin and whether a yellow hair is present. The named location in verse 29 is the beginning of a closer examination.
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