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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
Read in context →Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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mâʼar · maw-ar'
to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter, i.e. be painful
Strong's KJV usage: fretting, picking.
Strong's first: Leviticus 13:51Strong's last: Leviticus 14:44
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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
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FRET'TING, participle present tense Corroding; wearing away; agitating; vexing; making rough on the surface; variegating.
FRET'TING, noun Agitation; commotion.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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