Strong's #6879: tsara` (pronounced tsaw-rah')

a primitive root; to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy:--leper, leprous.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

tsâra‛

1) to be diseased of skin, be leprous

1a) (Qal) to be a leper

1b) (Pual) to have leprosy

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Exodus 4:6: "and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow."
Leviticus 13:44: "He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean;"
Leviticus 13:45: " And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare,"
Leviticus 14:2: "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto"
Leviticus 14:3: "and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;"
Leviticus 22:4: "What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue;"
Numbers 5:2: "of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled"
Numbers 12:10: "from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked"
Numbers 12:10: "looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous."
2 Samuel 3:29: "from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth"
2 Kings 5:1: "he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper."
2 Kings 5:11: "his hand over the place, and recover the leper."
2 Kings 5:27: "forever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow."
2 Kings 7:3: "And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one"
2 Kings 7:8: "And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into"
2 Kings 15:5: "the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt"
2 Chronicles 26:20: "upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence;"
2 Chronicles 26:21: "And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt"
2 Chronicles 26:21: "and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house"
2 Chronicles 26:23: "for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead."