Leviticus14:33–47

The house-leprosy law ↔ the garment-leprosy law verbal / quotation — confirmed

The whole pericope is consciously modeled on the law of leprous clothing just before it: the same diagnostic colors (greenish or reddish), the same seven-day shut-up, the same test of spreading, and — most tellingly — the same rare verdict-word mam’ereṯ, a fretting / malignant leprosy. Ellicott makes the link explicit: the house “must be pulled down, just as the garment was destroyed under similar circumstances (see Leviticus 13:51).” Both bodies, garment and house, are surrogates for the human frame.

Leviticus 13:51 · Leviticus 14:44

basis: rare shared lexeme H3992 mâʼar ("fretting/malignant," in only 4 vv), with H6581 pâsâh ("spread," 18 vv) and the governing keywords H6883 tsâraʻath + H5061 negaʻ

The diagnostic grid carried from skin to garment to wall structural / thematic — confirmed

The keywords that govern the human-leprosy diagnosis in ch. 13 — ṣāraʻaṯ (leprosy) and negaʻ (the stroke) — are deliberately re-used here for a house. The transfer is the point: a wall is examined exactly as a body is, so that, as Keil notes of the signs in v. 37, the appearance is “so similar to that of leprosy in the human body, as to derive its name from the latter by analogy.” The shared negaʻ is common across the code (62 verses), so this is a structural-thematic kinship, not a pointed quotation.

Leviticus 13:49 · Leviticus 14:34

basis: shared governing lexemes H6883 tsâraʻath (33 vv) and H5061 negaʻ (62 vv); high-frequency, so a shared diagnostic pattern rather than a verbal quotation

The cleansing rite that completes the law structural / thematic — confirmed

This unit ends with the verdict of uncleanness (vv. 44–47); the immediately following verses (14:48–53) supply the counterpart — the rite for a house pronounced clean, performed (Cambridge) “the same… as that prescribed for the leper in Leviticus 14:4–7.” The thread is held only by the common word bayith (house), which is everywhere in the chapter, so the connection is structural: judgment and cleansing are the two halves of one law.

Leviticus 14:45 · Leviticus 14:48

basis: shared lexeme H1004 bayith (1709 vv) only — a very high-frequency word, so the link is the shared subject (the house) and the law's bipartite structure, not a verbal echo

“Scraping / cornering” — a rare verb to Ezekiel’s temple verbal / quotation — confirmed

The verb for scraping the defiled wall, yaqṣiaʻ (root qāṣaʻ), occurs in only two passages in the whole Hebrew Bible. Its sole sibling is Ezekiel 46:22, where the temple’s outer courts are “cornered / set in corners.” The same rare root frames both the stripping of an unclean house and the precise squaring of holy space — a verbal curiosity binding defilement-removal to sanctuary-architecture. The link is real but slender; the tool offers it as a lexical thread, not a developed typology.

Leviticus 14:41 · Ezekiel 46:22

basis: rare shared lexeme H7106 qâtsaʻ — occurs in only 2 verses in the entire OT, making the verbal link statistically pointed

“Cutting off your house” — the curse on a built house verbal / quotation — confirmed

The rare verb hiqṣôṯ (root qāṣāh, “to cut off,” five passages) that describes scraping the house reappears, with bayith, in Habakkuk 2:10 — “you have devised shame for your house, cutting off many peoples, and forfeiting your soul.” Where Leviticus cuts away a plague to save a house, Habakkuk indicts a man who builds a house by violence and so cuts off his own life — the same verbal pair (cut-off + house) turned toward judgment. Compare 2 Kings 10:32, where the LORD “began to cut off” parts of Israel. Note: this is a verbal kinship of a single rare root, not a quotation of Leviticus.

Leviticus 14:43 · Habakkuk 2:10 · 2 Kings 10:32

basis: rare shared lexeme H7096 qâtsâh ("cut off," in only 5 vv); the Habakkuk pairing adds H1004 bayith. Confirmed as verbal on the low-frequency root, though the sense is analogical, not citational

“Greenish” — the rare color word, and why it is only a coincidence flagged — verify source

The faint sickly green of the wall-plague, yəraqraqōṯ (root yᵉraqraq), is one of only three occurrences in the Hebrew Bible. One sibling is the gold-green sheen of a dove’s wings in Psalm 68:13 — the same rare reduplicated color word stretched from a plague-stain to a thing of beauty. By raw frequency the Verifier would tag this “verbal,” but the tool deliberately downgrades it: there is no shared motif, structure, or quotation — only a homonym of color, and the senses (corruption vs. iridescence) point in opposite directions. A rare word alone, with no shared meaning, does not earn a “confirmed verbal” badge. It is offered as a lexical curiosity to be checked, not a connection to be trusted.

Leviticus 14:37 · Psalm 68:13

basis: the only shared lexeme is H3422 yᵉraqraq (in 3 vv) — rare by count, but the meanings diverge sharply (plague-stain vs. dove-iridescence) with no shared motif or citation, so the verbal coincidence is flagged rather than confirmed

The house torn down and built again novel

The condemned house could not be cleansed; it had to be razed and carried outside the city (v. 45) — as the leper was put outside the camp. The older voices already read the house as a body and a temple. Gill calls it “an emblem of a visible church… compared to an house.” The Gospel presses past the figure: at His own body Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19), and He “suffered outside the gate” (Hebrews 13:12), the very place to which the unclean house and the leper were carried. The house that man must demolish prefigures the temple that God tears down and raises incorruptible. The tool offers this as a reading to be weighed, not a claim the text makes outright.

Leviticus 14:45 · John 2:19 · Hebrews 13:12

The leprosy that no scraping could cure widely-held

Every human remedy is applied — stones pulled, walls scraped, fresh plaster laid — and still the plague returns (v. 43). The law diagnoses a corruption that the law itself cannot finally remove; the house must die. This is leprosy as Scripture’s standing emblem of sin (Henry: “The leprosy of sin ruins families and churches,” and “Thus sin is so interwoven with the human body, that it must be taken down by death”), and it is precisely what only Christ can do: He touched the leper and was not defiled but cleansed him (Matthew 8:3), doing what the priest, who could only declare, never could — He makes clean. The typology of leprosy-as-sin is ancient and widely held; the specific reach to Christ’s cleansing touch is the tool’s application of it.

Leviticus 14:43 · Matthew 8:2-3 · Leviticus 13:45-46