Leviticus 13:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

Leviticus 13:40 —

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Galatians 4:13
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Romans 8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Romans 6:19
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Topics

Hygiene Purification Sanitation Scab Uncleanness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 38-46)

We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev. 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his bald head (2 Kgs. 2:23); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. II. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40-41. bald ... forehead bald--The falling off of the hair, when the baldness commences in the back part of the head, is another symptom which creates a suspicion of leprosy. But it was not of itself a decisive sign unless taken in connection with other tokens, such as a “sore of a reddish white color” [Le 13:43]. The Hebrews as well as other Orientals were accustomed to distinguish between the fo…