Dictionary of Bible Themes » 5000 Humanity » 5125 Parts of the body and clothing » 5182 skin
The outer covering of the body. Diseased skin is often subject to pain and regarded as unclean.
Skin as the outer covering of the body
Job 10:10-11 See also Genesis 3:21; Genesis 27:11; Ezekiel 37:6,8
Violence against the skin
Micah 3:2-3 See also Job 2:4-5
Skin and bones
Psalm 102:5 To be reduced to skin and bones is a mark of severe suffering. See also Numbers 4:8-14 animal skins used for covering the ark of the Testimony; Job 19:20; Lamentations 3:4; Lamentations 4:8
Skin diseases
Skin diseases are painful
Job 30:30 See also Job 7:5; Job 18:13; Lamentations 5:10
They can be defiling
Numbers 5:2-3 See also Leviticus 13:1-11,43-46; Leviticus 22:4
As God's punishment for sin
Numbers 12:10-11 Miriam; 2 Kings 5:26-27 Naaman; 2 Chronicles 26:19-20 Uzziah
Healed by Jesus Christ
Matthew 8:2-3 pp Mark 1:40-42 pp Luke 5:12-13; Luke 17:12-14
Skin cannot be changed
Jeremiah 13:23
A person can know God even when the skin has been destroyed
Job 19:26-27
See also
5136 body 5137 bones 5146 covering 5297 disease 5333 healing 5390 leprosy 5436 pain 5560 suffering 7340 clean and unclean 7348 defilement 9210 judgment, God's 9310 resurrection
