5182 skin
Dictionary of Bible Themes

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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



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