If a man or woman suffering from tzaraʿat, a skin disease, has hair that turns tzahov, they are impure. In modern Hebrew, tzahov means yellow, but what does it mean in the Bible?For PaleoJudaica posts on language and ancient color perception, see here and links.
For the difference between modern "leprosy" (Hansen's syndrome) and biblical "leprosy" (tzaraʿat), see here.
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