Leviticus 14:20

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

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וְטָהֵֽר

ṭâhêr

H2891

“and · to cleanse”

Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 95× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 35:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 792

to be clean, be pure - (Qal) - to be clean (physically - of disease) - to be clean ceremonially - to purify, be clean morally, made clean - (Piel) - to cleanse, purify - physically - ceremonially - morally - to pronounce clean - to perform the ceremony of cleansing - (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean - (Hithpael) - to purify oneself - ceremonially - morally - to present oneself for purification

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 →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
5 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

וְהֶעֱלָ֧ה Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וְכִפֶּ֥ר Piel · Sequential Perfect
וְטָהֵֽר Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

הַכֹּהֵ֛ן priest H3548 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 Leviticus 14:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 14:10 "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
Leviticus 14:8 "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

Hebrew Leviticus 14:20 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהֶעֱלָ֧ה הַכֹּהֵ֛ן אֶת הָעֹלָ֥ה וְאֶת הַמִּנְחָ֖ה הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה וְכִפֶּ֥ר עָלָ֛יו הַכֹּהֵ֖ן וְטָהֵֽר

and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 14:20 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀναφέρω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα καί ὁ θυσία ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον ἔναντι κύριος καί ἐκἱλάσκομαι περί αὐτός ὁ ἱερεύς καί καθαρίζω

And the priest shall offer the whole burnt offering, and the sacrifice upon the altar before the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be cleansed.

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)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְיַסֵק כַּהֲנָא יָת עֲלָתָא וְיָת מִנְחָתָא לְמַדְבְּחָא וִיכַפֵּר עֲלוֹהִי כַּהֲנָא וְיִדְכֵּי

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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)

וְיַסִיק כַּהֲנָא יַת עֲלָתָא וְיַת מִנְחָתָא לְמַדְבְּחָא וִיכַפֵּר עֲלוֹי כַּהֲנָא וְיִדְכֵּי

And the priest shall offer the burnt offering with the mincha at the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

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 Leviticus 14:20 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lev 14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

Ver. 20. And the meat offering.] The meat offering annexed to the burnt offering shows, saith one, {a} either that Christians grow marvellously in this life, after they have full assurance of pardon of sin: or else that Christ will be their eternal food in heaven.

{a} Bifield, on 1Pe 1:22.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

14:20 grain offering: See study note on 2:1-16.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(20) Shall offer the burnt offering.—With the offering of the burnt offering, accompanied by the meat offering mentioned in Lev_14:10, concluded the second and last stage of the purification of the leper, which completely restored him to the privileges of the sanctuary.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar,.... The meat offering which belonged to that, and went along with it, even one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil; but no mention being made of any meat offering with the other offerings already offered, the trespass offering and the sin offering; some say, as Aben Ezra observes, that the whole meat offering, consisting of three tenth deals of fine flour, was offered with the burnt offering, which must be a saving to the priest, if he only burnt one handful of it, as in other cases, the rest falling to his part:

and the priest shall make an atonement for him; these offerings still furthering of it, and sending to perfect it, and did complete it:

and he shall be clean; in a typical and ceremonial sense.

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

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

Marg

(See Scofield "Exo 29:33")

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ואת המנחה AND THE MEAL-OFFERING — the meal-offering of the drink-offering that accompanies an animal sacrifice.

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.

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.

Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭâhêr (“to cleanse”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to cleanse” (ṭâhêr) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Leviticus 14:10, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “priest” (2× in this one verse) do in 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?
«וְהֶעֱלָ֧ה» is a Hiphil Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“priest” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.