tzaraath
Meanings
noun
- Any of various disfigurements of a person's skin, hair, clothing, or home understood as a kind of impurity requiring special rituals of atonement.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew צָרַעַת (tsará'at), originally "smitten" or "struck" from various skin afflictions' supposed divine origin.
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