What Does Leviticus 14:54 Mean in the King James?
This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
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 word translated “plague” is nega, a striking or touch, so affliction carries the image of something that has made contact.
THE MEANING
When affliction needs to be recognized, this verse brings distinct conditions under instruction rather than leaving them as one unnamed blur. Naming and discernment belong to facing what is present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that every visible affliction is the same condition: this verse names different forms distinctly.
THE ROOT
נֶגַע
negaʿ
GROWS FROM
נגע
n-g-ʿ
To touch, reach, or strike.
“plague” in this verse is negaʿ. Nega names an affliction as a striking or contact, carrying a bodily image inside the word. The same root can describe what touches and what is stricken, joining the condition to the experience of being struck.
ALSO GROWS
nāgaʿ: to touch, reach, or strike
נָגַע
The noun nega retains the root’s sense of something making contact.
nāgûaʿ: stricken, afflicted
נָגוּעַ
This form describes someone as stricken, echoing the root behind the verse’s word “plague.”
THE PATTERN
The root נגע names affliction as something that touches or strikes, whether it appears as a condition, a sore, or a person described as stricken.
When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.THE THREAD
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.The Hebrew word translated “stricken” shares the root נגע with Leviticus’s “plague.” The root links a named affliction with the person described as having been struck.
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