Lev 13:8 | NETfull | STEP | The priest must then examine it, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a disease.

Leviticus 13:8

8 The priest must then examine it, ^{▼▼ The “it” is not expressed but is to be understood. It refers to the “infection” (cf. the note on v. 2 above).} and if ^{▼▼ Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).} the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. ^{▼▼ This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’, cf. the note on v. 3 above).} It is a disease.