part of the garment, &c. where before it was not seen: it is a spreading plague; or leprosy; a flourishing one, as the word signifies, a growing and increasing one: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire; according to Aben Ezra, only that part in which the plague was; but Jarchi says the whole garment; with whom Ben Gersom seems to agree, who reads the words, thou shall burn it, with that in which the plague is; the whole garment, skin, warp, or woof, along with the part in which the leprosy is.