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Leprosy - lepra

Definition: Lepra (lep'-rah) Abstract Noun, Feminine - Leprosy, a deeply infectious, contagious skin disease rendering a person "ceremonially unclean" in Jewish society (Helps - word studies).

Diagram: By convention, the sign of an abstract noun is an equilateral triangle. All disease such as leprosy in 1st century Jewish society was belived to be caused by unclean spirits.

Mk 1:42

And immediately the "leprosy" came away from him and he was cleansed.

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