What Does Leviticus 13:41 Mean in the King James?
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
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
A visible lack is not, by itself, a stain.
THE MEANING
A bare front of the head can be visible without making you unclean. This verse holds hair loss and cleanness together in the same person: what is missing does not, by itself, make you defiled.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a visible bodily difference automatically makes you unclean.
THE ROOT
טָהוֹר
tahor
GROWS FROM
טהר
ṭ-h-r
To be clean or pure.
The word for “clean” belongs to a root that also describes becoming clean or being cleansed. The verse does not deny the visible loss; it names the person as clean through it.
ALSO GROWS
taher: To be clean; to cleanse or purify.
טָהֵר
The verb shows cleanness as a condition that can be recognized or restored, not just a spotless surface.
tohorah: Cleanness or purity.
טָהֳרָה
This noun names the state the verse assigns even while hair is absent.
THE PATTERN
Cleanness names the actual condition, not a label imposed from what merely appears.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.THE THREAD
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.The Hebrew word translated “clean” in both verses is טָהוֹר (tahor), from טהר (ṭ-h-r). The same root names cleanness of the body and cleanness of the heart, holding both meanings in one word-family.
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