H2763b H2763b
mutilated/disfigured (in face: nose, lip, or ear)
This Qal passive participle appears in Leviticus 21:18, listing physical defects that disqualified priests from altar service. The term refers to facial mutilation—specifically to slitting or piercing of nose, lip, or ear. The Arabic cognate خَرَمَ describes perforation or slitting of nasal partition, lips, or earlobes. The list includes blindness, lameness, and facial mutilation (חָרֻם) alongside disproportionate limbs, establishing standards of physical wholeness for priestly service. The multilingual glosses use terms like 'mutilated' and 'disfigured' to capture deliberate or accidental facial damage.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — Within Levitical holiness codes, physical wholeness symbolized ritual fitness for sacred service. Facial mutilation, whether from injury, birth defect, or cultural practices (like piercing), rendered priests unfit for altar approach while not excluding them from other priestly functions or from eating holy food. The specificity of 'nose, lip, ear' indicates visible facial disfigurement that would be noticed by worshipers. This reflects ancient Near Eastern associations between bodily perfection and sacred space. 1×
AR["أَفْطَسُ"]·ben["চেপ্টা-নাক"]·DE["disfigured"]·EN["disfigured"]·FR["disfigured"]·heb["חרם"]·HI["चपटी-नाकवाला"]·ID["cacat-hidung"]·IT["disfigured"]·jav["ragi"]·KO["켧-찌그러진"]·PT["mutilado"]·RU["с-изуродованным-лицом"]·ES["mutilado"]·SW["aliyepungukiwa"]·TR["sakat-burunlu"]·urd["چپٹی-ناک-والا"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† II. [חָרַם] vb. slit (nose, lip, ear, etc.), mutilate, especially face (Arabic خَرَمَ perforate, pierce, slit the partition between the nostrils, or the lip, or the lobe of the ear)— Qal Pt. pass. אִישׁ עִוֵּר אוֹ פִּסֵּחַ אוֹ חָרֻם אוֹ שָׂרוּעַ a man blind or lame or mutilated in the face (in nose, lip, ear, etc.), or too long in a limb Lv 21:18 (H), v. Di (Kn).