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Leviticus 14:50

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 14:50 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.
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Leviticus 14:50 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/leviticus/14/50.

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He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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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.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he shall slaughter one bird into a vessel of clay, over living water.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And hee shall kill one sparowe ouer pure water in an earthen vessell,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And having immolated one sparrow In an earthen vessel over living waters,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and he hath slaughtered the one bird upon an earthen vessel, over running water;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and he has slaughtered one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He will kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay jar.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he shall slaughter one bird into a vessel of clay, over living water.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel, over running water:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He will kill one of the birds over a clay pot filled with fresh water.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

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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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֶ֖רֶשׂ pottery H2789 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֶ֖רֶשׂ pottery H2789 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 2 prepositions
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וְשָׁחַ֖ט Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 12 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.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 14:50 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשָׁחַ֖ט אֶת הַצִּפֹּ֣ר הָאֶחָ֑ת אֶל כְּלִי חֶ֖רֶשׂ עַל מַ֥יִם חַיִּֽים

He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 14:50 Septuagint · lemma form

καί σφάζω ὁ ὀρνίθιον ὁ εἷς εἰς σκεῦος ὀστράκινος ἐπί ὕδωρ ζάω

And he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water.

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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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיִכּוֹס יָת צִפֲּרָא חֲדָא לְמַאן דַחֲסַף עַל מֵי מַבּוּעַ

    (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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיִכּוֹס טַבְּחָא יַת צִיפְּרָא חָדָא לְמָנָא דְפָחַר עַל מֵי מַבּוּעַ

    and the slayer shall kill one turtle dove in a vessel of earthenware with spring water;

    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.

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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 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is cheres (“pottery”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “pottery” (cheres) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Leviticus 6:28 shares the word «pottery» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «וְשָׁחַ֖ט» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?

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