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The traditional English rendering of the Hebrew tzara'at — a range of contagious skin conditions requiring priestly examination and potential quarantine under Mosaic Law; not limited to Hansen's disease (modern leprosy) and central to purity laws in Leviticus 13–14
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A skin disease that rendered a person ritually unclean and socially isolated. Lepers were excluded from community life until healed and certified clean by a priest (Leviticus 13-14). Jesus' willingness to touch and heal lepers showed God's heart for outcasts.