Tzaraath (tzaraas, tzaraat, tsaraas, tsaraat; Hebrew צרעת) is a disfigurative condition named by the masoretic text of the Priestly Code in the Tanakh. The word is used for both skin conditions and for discolorations that affect clothes and buildings. Tzaraath is translated by the Septuagint as lepra, and was consequently translated by older English translations of the Bible as leprosy, with which lepra is cognate. Several of the symptoms mentioned by the biblical tex… (More on Tzaraath)