Leviticus 14:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,

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הַתֹּרִ֔ים

tôwr

H8449

“the · doves”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute

Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 15:9

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably the same as H8447

TWOT: 2500c

dove, turtledove

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 →

12: words
11: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַתֹּרִ֔ים dove H8449 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַתֹּרִ֔ים dove H8449 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions
1 conjunction
2 particles

Verb forms

וְעָשָׂ֤ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
תַּשִּׂ֖יג Hiphil · Imperfect

Repetition

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

מִן from H4480 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 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 14:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
Leviticus 12:8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
Leviticus 15:14–15 "'On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:
Luke 2:24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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 14:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעָשָׂ֤ה אֶת הָֽאֶחָד֙ מִן הַתֹּרִ֔ים א֖וֹ מִן בְּנֵ֣י הַיּוֹנָ֑ה מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּשִּׂ֖יג יָדֽוֹ

He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,

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Greek LXX Leviticus 14:30 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω εἷς ὁ τρυγών ἤ ἀπό ὁ νεοσσός ὁ περιστερά καθότι εὑρίσκω αὐτός ὁ χείρ

And he shall offer one of the turtledoves or of the young pigeons, as he can afford it,

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)

וְיַעְבֵּד יָת חַד מִן שַׁפְנִינַיָא אוֹ מִן בְּנֵי יוֹנָה מִדִי תַדְבֵּק יְדֵהּ

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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)

וְיַעֲבֵיד יַת חַד מִן שַׁפְנִינַיָא רַבְרְבַיָא אוֹ מִן גוֹזְלִין בְּנֵי יָוֹן מִן מַה דִמְסַפְּקָא יְדֵיהּ

And the priest shall perform (the offering of) one of the large turtle doves, or of the pigeons of which his hand had sufficiency.

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 14:30 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

Whether of them he can get.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

John Gill's Exposition

When ye be come into the land of Canaan,.... Which as yet they were not come to, being in the wilderness, and so the following law concerning the leprosy in houses could not yet take place, they now dwelling in tents, and not in houses:

which I give to you for a possession; the Lord had given it to Abraham, and his seed, long ago, to be their inheritance, and now he was about to put them into the possession of it, which they were to hold as their own under God, their sovereign Lord and King:

and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; by which it appears that this kind of leprosy was from the immediate hand of God, and was supernatural and miraculous, as the Jewish writers affirm (f); nor is there anything in common, or at least in our parts of the world, that is answerable unto it; and from hence the same writers (g) conclude, that houses of Gentiles are exempt from it, only the houses of the Israelites in the land of Canaan had it; and they likewise except Jerusalem, and say (h), that was not defiled with the plague of leprosy, as it is written, "and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession"; for Jerusalem was not divided among the tribes; and they suppose, whenever it was put into any house, it was on account of some sin or sins committed by the owner; and so the Targum of Jonathan, and there be found a man that builds his house with rapine and violence, then I will put the plague, &c. thought they commonly ascribe it to evil speaking, which they gather from the case of Miriam.

(f) Maimonides, Abarbinel, Abraham Seba, and others. (g) Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. (h) T. Bab. Eruvin, fol. 82. 2. Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 4. Gersom in loc.

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

He must offer

"The priest must offer"

the one who is to be cleansed

This can be translated in active form. AT: "the one he is cleansing" (See: Active or Passive)

infectious skin disease

See how you translated these words in Leviticus 13:3.

who is not able to afford

Translate this so it is clear that the person does not have enough money to purchase a standard offering. AT: "who does not have enough money to buy" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

translationWords

dove

sin offering

burnt offering

grain offering

priest

atonement

clean

Yahweh

law, laws

sacrifice

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tôwr (“dove”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “dove” (tôwr) shape what this verse is saying?
Genesis 15:9 shares the word «dove» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“from” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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?
The verb «וְעָשָׂ֤ה» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) 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 12 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
“from” occurs 2× in this single verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.