Senses
1. leprous/leper (afflicted with skin disease) — Leprous, a leper — an adjective used substantivally to denote a person afflicted with a serious skin disease (traditionally translated 'leprosy', though the biblical term covers various dermatological conditions beyond Hansen's disease). All 9 NT occurrences relate to Jesus healing lepers (Matt 8:2, 10:8, 11:5, 26:6, Mark 1:40, 14:3, Luke 4:27, 7:22, 17:12). Multilingual evidence is uniform: spa 'leproso/leprosos', hin 'kodhi' (leper, unchanged for sg/pl), arb 'abras/burs' (leper/lepers), kor '나병환자' (nabyeonghwanja, leprosy patient), swa 'mwenye ukoma/wakoma/wenye ukoma' (one with leprosy/those with leprosy). The Adj-GMS/Adj-NMS vs Adj-AMP/Adj-NMP split is purely inflectional. 9×
AR["أَبرَصُ","أَبْرَصُ","أَبْرَصِ","الْأَبْرَصِ","بُرصًا","بُرصٌ","بُرصٍ"]·ben["কুষ্ঠরোগী","কুষ্ঠরোগী,","কুষ্ঠরোগীদের","কুষ্ঠরোগীর","কুষ্ঠরোগীরা"]·DE["Aussätziger","aussaetzig"]·EN["a-leper","leper","lepers","leprous"]·FR["lépreux"]·heb["מְצֹרָע","מְצֹרָעִים","מְצוֹרָע"]·HI["कोढ़ियों-को","कोढ़ी","कोढ़ी-के","कोधि","बिनती-करता-हुआ"]·ID["orang-kusta","orang-kusta,","si-Kusta","si-kusta"]·IT["leproi","lepros","leprou","leprous"]·jav["budhugen","kusta","tiyang-budhugen","tiyang-kusta","tiyang-lepra,","wong-kusta,"]·KO["나병-환자들을","나병-환자들이","나병환자","나병환자-가","나병환자들-이","나병환자들이","나병환자의"]·PT["leproso","leproso,","leprosos","um-leproso"]·RU["прокажённого","прокажённые","прокажённый","прокажённых"]·ES["a-leprosos","leproso","leprosos"]·SW["mkoma","mwenye-ukoma","mwenye-ukoma,","wakoma","wenye-ukoma"]·TR["cuzamlı","cuzamlılar","cuzamlıları","cuzamlının","cüzamlı,","cüzamlılar","cüzzamlılar"]·urd["کوڑھی","کوڑھی-کے","کوڑھیوں-کو"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
λεπρ-ός, ά, όν, scaly, scabby, rough, of places, conjecture Coraës in Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀκταὶ λ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; Λ. ἀκτή as proper name, Refs 6th c.BC+ __II leprous, LXX+4th c.BC+: as substantive, leper, NT; λ. ὄνυχες, probably psoriasis unguium, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ λ., = λέπρα, ἡ, LXX; ἱμάντας ἐκ λεπρῶν (i.e. δερμάτων, for the toughest leather, accusative to Scholia, was supposed to be made of mangy skins) Refs 5th c.BC+, proper name of a “Tannery” outside the walls); λ. βαυβών Refs 3rd c.BC+