וּמִן הַשֶּׁ֖מֶן יִצֹ֣ק הַכֹּהֵ֑ן עַל כַּ֥ף הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 14:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 14:26 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
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King James Version Public Domain
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And some of the oil the priest shall pour on the left palm of the priest.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm
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King James Version Public Domain
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Also the Priest shall powre of the oyle into the palme of his owne left hand.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the priest doth pour of the oil on the left palm of the priest;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the priest pours of the oil on the left palm of the priest;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And some of the oil the priest shall pour on the left palm of the priest.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the priest shall pour of the oil into [his], the priest's, left hand,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then the priest will pour some of the olive oil into his left palm
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית
sᵉmâʼlîy
H8042
“the · left side”
Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 9× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 14:15
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Adjective
- Type
- Adjective
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
left, left side, on the left
- וּמִן min H4480 “and · from” Conjunction + Preposition
- הַשֶּׁ֖מֶן shemen H8081 “the · fat” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- יִצֹ֣ק yâtsaq H3332 “to pour” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַכֹּהֵ֑ן kôhên H3548 “the · priest” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- כַּ֥ף kaph H3709 “palm of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַכֹּהֵ֖ן kôhên H3548 “the · priest” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית sᵉmâʼlîy H8042 “the · left side” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית left side H8042 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית left side H8042 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 4 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- יִצֹ֣ק Qal · Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הַכֹּהֵ֑ן priest H3548 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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.
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.
καί ἀπό ὁ ἔλαιον ἐπιχέω ὁ ἱερεύς ἐπί ὁ χείρ ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ ἀριστερός
And the priest shall pour of the oil on his own left hand.
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּמִן מִשְׁחָא יְרִיק כַּהֲנָא עַל יְדָא דְכַהֲנָא דִשְׂמָאלָא
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּמִן מִשְׁחָא יָרִיק כַּהֲנָא בְּיַד יְמִינֵיהּ עַל יְדָא דְכַהֲנָא דִשְמָאלָא
And the priest shall pour some of the oil with his right hand into the priest's left hand,
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.
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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is sᵉmâʼlîy (“left side”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word sᵉmâʼlîy carries the sense “left side.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Leviticus 14:15, which shares the word «left side», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “priest” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «יִצֹ֣ק» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “priest” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 14:26 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 →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.