What Does Leviticus 15:7 Mean in the King James?
And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
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 root for “touch” also gives a word for affliction, making contact itself the hinge through which a condition passes.
THE MEANING
When you touch the flesh of someone with an issue, the verse gives that contact a consequence: your clothes are washed, your body is bathed, and your status is unclean until evening. Contact has a real effect here, and that effect has a stated limit.
THE ROOT
נֹגֵעַ
nōgēaʿ
GROWS FROM
נגע
To touch, reach, or come into contact; related forms can carry the sense of a strike or affliction.
“toucheth” in this verse is nōgēaʿ. נָגַע (nāgaʿ, “touch or reach”) and נֶגַע (negaʿ, “stroke or affliction”) share the consonants נגע. That connection makes touch in this verse more than incidental contact: it is the point where ritual status passes from one body to another, while washing and the evening limit mark its bounds.
ALSO GROWS
nāgaʿ: To touch, reach, or make contact.
נָגַע
This verb names the physical contact that carries consequence in the verse.
negaʿ: A stroke, affliction, or plague.
נֶגַע
This related word uses the same consonants for an afflicting impact, illuminating how the root links contact with an effect.
THE PATTERN
Bodily contact is a consequential threshold through which uncleanness or healing can pass.
And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.THE THREAD
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.The Hebrew root נגע (nāgaʿ, “touch”) appears in both verses as contact carries ritual status. Numbers traces that contact onward from a person to what is touched, while Leviticus specifies the bodily contact and names washing and evening as its limit.
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