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frek´'ld, (בּהק, boÌ„hakÌ£; Septuagint ἀλφοÌÏ‚, alphoÌs, called in the Revised Version (British and American) “a tetter,†and described as a bright shining spot (behaÌ„roÌ„th lebheÌ„noÌ„th): These white eruptions did not render the person so marked ceremonially unclean (). This form of skin disease is described by Hippocrates as usually of no great importance and indicative of a sluggishness of body; it is probably some form of local psoriasis. There is a cognate modern Arabic word applied to a facial eczematous eruption. For other references to skin diseases, see LEPROSY.