Deuteronomy 26:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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הַטֶּ֖נֶא

ṭeneʼ

H2935

“the · basket”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 26:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to weave

TWOT: 812a

basket

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

9: words
9: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַטֶּ֖נֶא basket H2935 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַטֶּ֖נֶא basket H2935 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
7 nouns

Verb forms

וְלָקַ֧ח Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְהִ֨נִּיח֔וֹ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 26:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Matthew 5:23–24 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
Matthew 23:19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Hebrews 13:10–12 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 26:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלָקַ֧ח הַכֹּהֵ֛ן הַטֶּ֖נֶא מִיָּדֶ֑ךָ וְהִ֨נִּיח֔וֹ לִפְנֵ֕י מִזְבַּ֖ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ

The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 26:4 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λαμβάνω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ κάρταλλος ἐκ ὁ χείρ σύ καί τίθημι αὐτός ἀπέναντι ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύριος ὁ θεός σύ

And the priest shall take the basket out of your hands, and shall set it before the altar of the Lord your God:

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְיִסַב כַּהֲנָא סַלָא מִידָךְ וְיַחְתִנֵהּ קֳדָם מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְיִסַב כַּהֲנָא יַת סַלָא דְבִכּוּרַיָא מִן יְדָךְ וְיוֹבֵל וְיֵיתֵי וְיָרִים וְיָחִית וּמִבָּתַר כְּדֵין יַחְתוּנֵיהּ קֳדָם מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן

And the priest shall receive the basket of early fruits from thy hand, and take, bring, uplift, and lower it, and afterward lay it down before the altar of the Lord your God.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 26:4 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

4. before the altar] In D only here.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand,.... To wave it, as Jarchi says, putting his hand under the hand of the owner, and so waving it; and this being waved to and fro towards the several corners of the earth, was an acknowledgment of the Lord being the proprietor of it:

and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God; that it might have some appearance of a sacrifice, and be a fit emblem of the spiritual sacrifice of praise, which is accepted upon the altar Christ, which sanctifies every gift.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ולקח הכהן המנה מידך AND THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE THE BASKET OUT OF THY HAND in order to wave it. The priest places his hand beneath the hands of the owner and so waves it (Sukkah 47b).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Sforno

Rabbi Ovadia Sforno

And place it. To show and make known that the first fruits were not brought to the kohein but to Hashem. Hashem gave them to the kohein along with the other priestly gifts.

Sforno on the Tanakh — English translation: “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭeneʼ (“basket”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “basket” (ṭeneʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Deuteronomy 26:2, which shares the word «basket», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«וְלָקַ֧ח» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.