Lexicon
שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה
she.qa.ru.rah
H8258
H:N-F Hebrew

hollow

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she.qa.ru.rah denotes depressions in a house wall where a plague is examined.

The attested use refers to depressions in the walls of a house, described in the context of examining a plague.

Senses in use

  1. Depressions in a house wall · dominant

    In Leviticus 14:37, the feminine plural form occurs in the description of a plague in a house's walls; the APB renders the clause with “hollow greenish or reddish depressions” whose appearance is lower than the wall.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Leviticus 14:37, the APB presents the form within “hollow greenish or reddish depressions.” The specific contribution of the lemma is best identified broadly as the wall depressions in that clause.

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