Dictionary of Bible Themes The outer covering of the body. Diseased skin is often subject to pain and regarded as unclean. Job 10:10-11Skin as the outer covering of the body See also Genesis 3:21; 27:11Ezekiel 37:6,8 Micah 3:2-3 Violence against the skin See also Job 2:4-5Psalms 102:5 Skin and bones See also Numbers 4:8-14To be reduced to skin and bones is a mark of severe suffering. Job 19:20Lamentations 3:4; 4:8 animal skins used for covering the ark of the Testimony Job 30:30Skin diseases See also Skin diseases are painful Job 7:5; 18:13Lamentations 5:10 Numbers 5:2-3 See also They can be defiling Leviticus 13:1-11,43-46; 22:4Numbers 12:10-11 As God's punishment for sin 2 Kings 5:26-27Miriam 2 Chronicles 26:19-20Naaman Matthew 8:2-3Uzziah Healed by Jesus Christ Luke 17:12-14pp Mk 1:40-42 pp Lk 5:12-13 Jeremiah 13:23Skin cannot be changed Job 19:26-27A person can know God even when the skin has been destroyed See also 5136 body5138 bowing 5146 covering 5297 disease 5333 healing 5391 letters 5436 pain 5560 suffering 7340 clean and unclean 7348 defilement 9210 judgment, God's 9310 resurrection |
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