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Strong's #6880 - צִרְעָה
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2691) ory (תסראה TsRAh) AC: Infect CO: Welt AB: ?: An infection of the skin, usually leprosy, that causes welts. Also an infection of mildew or mold, as welts, on clothing or a building.
V) ory (תסראה TsRAh) - Infect: To be infected with leprosy, mildew or mold. KJV (20): (vf: Paal, Pual) leper, leprous - Strongs: H6879 (צָרַע)
Nf2) tory (תסראהת TsRAhT) - Infection: An infection of the skin, cloth or a building. KJV (35): leprosy - Strongs: H6883 (צָרַעַת)
ef1) eoiy (תסיראהה TsYRAhH) - Hornet: From the welt when stung. KJV (3): hornet - Strongs: H6880 (צִרְעָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
צִרְעָה f. Exodus 23:28; Deuteronomy 7:20; Joshua 24:12 according to the ancient versions and the Hebrews, the hornet, with the art. collect. hornets, wasps, perhaps from the idea of piercing, which does not differ much from that of striking (صَرِيعُ a scourge), compare נָכָה, ضرب. But the hornets by which the Canaanites, locc. citt. are said to be driven from their dwellings, seems hardly capable of being literally understood (as is done by Bochart, in Hieroz. tom. iii. p. 407, ed. Lips.; Rosenm. Bibl. Alterthumsk. iv. 2, p. 430), but (with Le Clerc and Rosenm. on Ex. loc. cit.) metaph. as designating ills and calamities of various kinds; compare Joshua 24:12 and Joshua chap. 10.
