צָרַעַת, preced. wds.) [plague,] leprosy. Yeb. 63ᵇ (fr. Ben Sira) אשה רעה צ׳ … מצָרַעְתּוֹ a bad wife is a plague to her husband; … let him divorce her and be cured of his plague; Snh. 100ᵇ. Lev. R. s. 16, a. fr. לקה בצ׳ was smitten with leprosy. Lev. R. s. 17 (ref. to יסגרך, I Sam. XVII, 46) לשון צ׳, v. הַסְגָּרָה. Meg. 8ᵇ מי שצרעתו תלויה בגופו he whose (seclusion on account of) leprosy depends on the condition of his body; שאין צרעתו … אלא בימים whose seclusion depends … on time; מי שצ׳ … ברפואות whose seclusion depends on his recovery; a. fr.—Pl. צְרָעוֹת. Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 3, ch. III בנין אב לכל הצ׳ שיהיו וכ׳ (not הצרעת, v. R. S. to Neg. IV, 3) this verse (Lev. XIII, 11) establishes the rule for all leprosies that they must be no less than the size of a bean.