Leviticus 14:42

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וְטָ֥ח

ṭûwach

H2902

“and · to overlay”

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

Appears 12× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 795

to spread over, overlay, plaster, cover over, coat, besmear - (Qal) to overspread, coat, overlay - (Niphal) to be coated, be plastered - (Qal) to be besmeared

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 →

13: words
10: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְטָ֥ח to overlay H2902 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְטָ֥ח to overlay H2902

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְטָ֥ח to overlay H2902 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
4 nouns
2 adjectives
2 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

וְלָקְחוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְהֵבִ֖יאוּ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
יִקַּ֖ח Qal · Imperfect
וְטָ֥ח Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וְלָקְחוּ֙ to take H3947 ×2
אֲבָנִ֣ים stone H68 ×2
אֲחֵר֔וֹת other H312 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 27 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 18 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 14:42 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
Joshua 24:15 If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 17:7–9 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
2 Chronicles 19:5–7 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
2 Chronicles 29:4–5 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
Psalms 101:6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.
Acts 1:20–26 For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate, Let no one dwell therein,' and, 'Let another take his office.'
1 Timothy 5:9–10 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

1 Timothy 5:21–22 I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
2 Timothy 2:2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
Titus 1:5–9 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

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 14:42 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלָקְחוּ֙ אֲבָנִ֣ים אֲחֵר֔וֹת וְהֵבִ֖יאוּ אֶל תַּ֣חַת הָאֲבָנִ֑ים וְעָפָ֥ר אַחֵ֛ר יִקַּ֖ח וְטָ֥ח אֶת הַבָּֽיִת

They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 14:42 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λαμβάνω λίθος ἀποξύω ἕτερος καί ἀντιτίθημι ἀντί ὁ λίθος καί χοῦς ἕτερος λαμβάνω καί ἐκἀλείφω ὁ οἰκία

And they shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place of the former stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the house.

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)

וְיִסְבוּן אַבְנַיָא אָחֳרָנִין וְיַיְתוּן בַּאֲתַר אַבְנַיָא וַעֲפַר אָחֳרָן יִסַב וִישׁוּעַ יָת בֵּיתָא

(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)

וְיִסְבוּן אַבְנִין חוּרַנְיָין וִיעַלוּן בַּאֲתַר אַבְנַיָא וְעַפְרָא חוּרַן יִסַב וְיִתְטַשׁ יַת בֵּיתָא

And they shall take other stones, and insert them in the place of the (former) stones, and let other mortar be taken, and the house be replastered.

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 14:42 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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John Gill's Exposition

Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while it is shut up,.... The utmost of which were three weeks, as Jarchi observes; during the time a house was shut up, no man might enter it: if he did, he

shall be unclean until the evening; might not have any conversation with men until the evening was come, and he had washed himself; nay, according to the Misnah (q), if a clean person thrust in his head, or the greatest part of his body, into an unclean house, he was defiled; and whoever entered into a leprous house, and his clothes are on his shoulder, and his sandals (on his feet), and his rings on his hands, he and they are unclean immediately; and if he has his clothes on, and his sandals on his feet, and his rings on his hands, he is immediately defiled, and they are clean.

(q) Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 8, 9.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

42. Other mortar — This implies that the scraping removed the entire inner plastering.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 13 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭûwach (“to overlay”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ṭûwach carries the sense “to overlay.” How does it shape the verse?
This is the first place “to overlay” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Leviticus 14:43, which shares the word «to overlay», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to take” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וְלָקְחוּ֙» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
“to take” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.