Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 13:37 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 37. 37But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
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Quick Meaning
This verse recognizes black hair and non-spread as signs of healing and cleanness.
Head and beard are judged by depth and yellow hair
This verse is one part of that explanation in Leviticus 13:29-37. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Leviticus 13:29-37
Use 13:29-37 as the reading frame for Leviticus 13:37. The verse recognizes black hair and non-spread as signs of healing and cleanness, while the complete unit shows that A head or beard condition is evaluated through depth, yellow hair, quarantine, washing, spreading, and stable black hair.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse recognizes black hair and non-spread as signs of healing and cleanness; Leviticus 13:29-37 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
What Remains True
Recognizes black hair and non-spread as signs of healing and cleanness. Within Leviticus 13:29-37, this contributes to the larger claim that a head or beard condition is evaluated through depth, yellow hair, quarantine, washing, spreading, and stable black hair.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 13:37, keep the verse inside Leviticus 13:29-37. Hold this boundary: The text's hair criteria must not support racialized beauty standards or amateur diagnosis. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Leviticus 13:29-37 — Head and beard conditions are judged by hair and spreadSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 13:29-37, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 13:29-37
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 13:29-37
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