| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & p. p.) of Freckle. 2. (a.) Marked with freckles; spotted. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FRECKLED SPOT frek'-'-ld, (bohaq; Septuagint alphos, called in the Revised Version (British and American) "a tetter," and described as a bright shining spot (beharoth lebhenoth):
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. | Multi-Version Concordance Freckled (1 Occurrence) Leviticus 13:39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean. (KJV WBS YLT) |