Leviticus 14:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

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תְּנ֥וּךְ

tᵉnûwk

H8571

“lobe of”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 29:20

Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps from the same as H594 through the idea of protraction

TWOT: 2527a

tip, lobe (of ear)

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 →

22: words
16: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is תְּנ֥וּךְ lobe H8571 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תְּנ֥וּךְ lobe H8571 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
11 nouns
3 adjectives
3 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

וְשָׁחַט֮ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְלָקַ֤ח Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְנָתַ֛ן Qal · Sequential Perfect
הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר Hithpael · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַל upon H5921 ×3
הַיְמָנִ֑ית right hand H3233 ×3
הָֽאָשָׁם֒ guilt H817 ×2
בֹּ֤הֶן thumb H931 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 55 words from the Hebrew and 53 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.

In the original languages it is 22 Hebrew tokens and 43 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 14:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 14:14–20 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears: Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

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 Leviticus 14:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשָׁחַט֮ אֶת כֶּ֣בֶשׂ הָֽאָשָׁם֒ וְלָקַ֤ח הַכֹּהֵן֙ מִדַּ֣ם הָֽאָשָׁ֔ם וְנָתַ֛ן עַל תְּנ֥וּךְ אֹֽזֶן הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר הַיְמָנִ֑ית וְעַל בֹּ֤הֶן יָדוֹ֙ הַיְמָנִ֔ית וְעַל בֹּ֥הֶן רַגְל֖וֹ הַיְמָנִֽית

He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

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Greek LXX Leviticus 14:25 Septuagint · lemma form

καί σφάζω ὁ ἀμνός ὁ πλημμέλεια καί λαμβάνω ὁ ἱερεύς ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ὁ ὁ πλημμέλεια καί ἐπιτίθημι ἐπί ὁ λοβός ὁ οὖς ὁ καθαρίζω ὁ δεξιός καί ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ χείρ ὁ δεξιός καί ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ πούς ὁ δεξιός

And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

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)

וְיִכּוֹס יָת אִמְרָא דַאֲשָׁמָא וְיִסַב כַּהֲנָא מִדְמָא דַאֲשָׁמָא וְיִתֵּן עַל רוּם אוּדְנָא דְמִדַכֵּי דְיַמִינָא וְעַל אִלְיוֹן יְדֵהּ דְיַמִינָא וְעַל אִלְיוֹן רַגְלֵהּ דְיַמִינָא

(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)

וְיִכּוֹס טַבְּחָא יַת אִימְרָא דַאֲשָׁמָא וְיִסַב כַּהֲנָא מִן אַדְמָא דַאֲשָׁמָא וְיִתֵּן עַל גְדֵירָא מִיצְעָא דְאוּדְנָא דְמִידְכֵּי יְמִינָא וְעַל פּוּרְקָא מִיצְעָא דְיָדֵיהּ יְמִינָא וְעַל פּוּרְקָא מִיצְעָא דְרִיגְלֵיהּ יְמִינָא

And the slayer shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the middle cartilage of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the middle joint of his right hand, and on the middle joint of his right foot.

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 14:25 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 →

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Lev 14:25. The priest shall put the blood — Upon the extremities of the body, to include the whole. And some of the oil was afterward put in the same places upon the blood. That blood seems to have been a token of forgiveness, the oil of healing; for God first forgiveth our iniquities, and then healeth our diseases. When the leper was anointed, the oil was to have blood under it, to signify that all the graces and comforts of the Spirit, all his sanctifying influences, are owing to the death of Christ. It is by his blood alone that we are sanctified.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand. See Gill on Lev 14:15.

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Leviticus 14:27

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lev 14:27And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil,.... See Gill on Lev 14:16.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The priest shall put the blood - Upon the extremities of the body, to include the whole. And some of the oil was afterwards put in the same places upon the blood. That blood seems to have been a token of forgiveness, the oil of healing: For God first forgiveth our iniquities, and then healeth our diseases. When the leper was anointed, the oil must have blood under it, to signify that all the graces and comforts of the spirit, all his sanctifying influences are owing to the death of Christ. It is by his blood alone that we are sanctified.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 22 words (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tᵉnûwk (“lobe”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “lobe” (tᵉnûwk) shape what this verse is saying?
Exodus 29:20 shares the word «lobe» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“upon” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וְשָׁחַט֮» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 22 Hebrew ↔ 43 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“upon” occurs 3× in this single verse.
16 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 22 words in this verse.