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Freckled, Spot

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frek ´'ld , (בּהק , bōhaḳ ; Septuagint ἀλφός , alphós , called in the Revised Version (British and American) "a tetter," and described as a bright shining spot (behārōth lebhēnōth ): These white eruptions did not render the person so marked ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 13:39 ). This form of skin disease is described by Hippocrates as usually of no great importance and indicative of a sluggishness of body; it is probably some form of local psoriasis. There is a cognate modern Arabic word applied to a facial eczematous eruption. For other references to skin diseases, see LEPROSY .

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Freckled, Spot'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/f/freckled-spot.html. 1915.

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