And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
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Gill's Exposition
He is a leprous man, he is unclean,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off,…
Barnes' Notes
Sore - Rather, stroke. It is the same word which elsewhere in this and the next chapter is rendered plague.
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…
Baldness in the back or front part of the head(40 44)
This is not in itself a sign of uncleanness, but if in either part a reddish white plague(white reddish soreA. V.) appears, he must be seen by…