noun · feminine
lepras
Strong’sG3014
leprosy
stem lepr-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
λέπρα, -ας, ἡ
(< λεπρός), [in LXX for צָרַעַת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3014 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlep'-rah
scaliness, i.e. "leprosy"
Fromfrom the same as G3013;
King Jamesleprosy.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect λέπ-ρη, ἡ, (λεπίς) leprosy, which makes the skin scaly, LXX+5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | lepras3×λέπρα | leprais |
| object accusative | lepran | leprain |
| direct address vocative | leprar | leprair |
| of, belonging to genitive | leprau1×λέπρας | lepraiu |
| to, for dative | lepra | leprai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
lepra is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
lepras“leprosy”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 8:3… katharizisar; kai eutheōs katharizita autou tas lepras.… said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Mark 1:42kai euthuos aperchata apo autou tas lepras, kai katharizita.And immediately the leprosy left him, and the man was …
Luke 5:13… legarantos; Thelamō, katharizisar; kai eutheōs tas lepras aperchata apo autou.… said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
leprau“leprosy”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 5:12… taiu polaiu kai idou andros plēros leprau; kai horarantos ton Iēsun piptarantos epi …… came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell …