What Does Leviticus 13:48 Mean in the King James?
Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
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 the inspection reaches beyond the finished cloth to its crossing threads and to every thing made of skin.
THE MEANING
The condition is considered wherever it marks the material: the warp and woof, linen or wool, skin, and anything made of skin. Woven structure and worked hide both fall within the same field of examination.
THE ROOT
עֵרֶב
ʿērev
GROWS FROM
ערב
ʿ-r-b
To intermingle or braid together.
The word for woof carries the root sense of intermingling. The verse names the crossing component of the weave, so the inspection reaches into what is joined together, not only the finished fabric.
ALSO GROWS
ʿārav: To intermingle, braid, or exchange.
עָרַב
This verb makes the woof’s joining action visible: it crosses through the warp to form the cloth.
ʿērev rav: A mixed multitude.
עֵרֶב רַב
This phrase uses the root for things gathered together, echoing how the woof mingles with the warp.
עוֹר
ʿor
GROWS FROM
עור
ʿ-w-r
Skin or hide, the body’s outer covering or hide used as material.
Hebrew uses one noun for skin on the body and hide as material. That shared word places a living surface and a worked covering in the same material category, alongside woven fibers.
ALSO GROWS
ʿor: Skin or hide.
עוֹר
The same noun names the skin and the material made into leather goods in this verse.
ʿorot: Skins or hides.
עוֹרוֹת
The plural names hides as material, linking the worked skin here with the same word for a body’s covering.
THE PATTERN
A visible condition is handled where it manifests, whether on an object, in a dwelling, or on a person.
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.THE THREAD
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.The same Hebrew noun עוֹר (ʿor), meaning skin or hide, appears here and in the account of the coats of skins. That shared word links the hide examined in this verse with a material used to make coverings, placing worked skin beside woven cloth.
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