Leviticus 15:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 15:22 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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Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And any person who touches any furniture on which she sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water. And he shall be unclean until the evening.

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
    Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And whosoeuer toucheth any thing that she sate vpon, shall wash his clothes, and wash him selfe in water, and shalbe vncleane vnto the euen:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And any one who is coming against any vessel on which she sitteth doth wash his garments, and hath washed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And anyone who is coming against any vessel on which she sits washes his garments, and has washed with water, and been unclean until the evening.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Whoever touches anything that she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; that person will be unclean until evening.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And any person who touches any furniture on which she sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water. And he shall be unclean until the evening.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And whoever toucheth any object that she sat upon shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And whoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Anyone who touches what she was sitting on has to wash their clothes, and wash themselves with water, and they will be unclean until the evening.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And anyone touching anything on which she has been seated will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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יְכַבֵּ֧ס
kâbaç
H3526
“to wash”
Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Verb
Stem
Piel
Form
Imperfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 946

to wash (by treading), be washed, perform the work of a fuller - (Qal) washer, fuller, treader (participle) - (Piel) to wash (garments, person) - (Pual) to be washed - (Hothpael) to be washed out
  1. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. הַנֹּגֵ֔עַ nâgaʻ H5060 “the · touching” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. בְּכָל kôl H3605 “in/at · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. כְּלִ֖י kᵉlîy H3627 “vessel” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  6. תֵּשֵׁ֣ב yâshab H3427 “to dwell” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  7. עָלָ֑יו ʻal H5921 “upon · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. בְּגָדָ֛יו beged H899 “garments · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. וְרָחַ֥ץ râchats H7364 “and · to wash” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  10. בַּמַּ֖יִם mayim H4325 “in/at the · water(s)” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  11. וְטָמֵ֥א ṭâmêʼ H2930 “and · to be unclean” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  12. עַד ʻad H5704 “until” Preposition
  13. הָעָֽרֶב ʻereb H6153 “the · evening” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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14
words
13
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְכַבֵּ֧ס to wash H3526 occurs in 48 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 6 nouns
  • 2 prepositions
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • הַנֹּגֵ֔עַ Qal · Participle Active
  • תֵּשֵׁ֣ב Qal · Imperfect
  • יְכַבֵּ֧ס Piel · Imperfect
  • וְרָחַ֥ץ Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • וְטָמֵ֥א Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

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

  • וְכָל all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 23 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

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Hebrew Leviticus 15:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְכָל הַנֹּגֵ֔עַ בְּכָל כְּלִ֖י אֲשֶׁר תֵּשֵׁ֣ב עָלָ֑יו יְכַבֵּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד הָעָֽרֶב

Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 15:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πᾶς ὁ ἅπτομαι πᾶς σκεῦος οὗ ἐάν καταἵζω ἐπί αὐτός πλύνω ὁ ἱμάτιον αὐτός καί λούω ὕδωρ καί ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί ἕως ἑσπέρα

and every one that touches any vessel on which she shall sit, shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

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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  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְכָל דְיִקְרַב בְּכָל מָנָא דִי תֵיתֵב עֲלוֹהִי יְצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹהִי וְיַסְחֵי בְמַיָא וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְכָל דְיִקְרַב בְּכָל מָאנָא דִמְיַיחֵד לְמֵיתַב עֲלוֹי יְצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹי וְיַסְחֵי בְּאַרְבְּעִין סָאוִוין דְמוֹי וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא

    And whoever toucheth any thing upon which such an one hath sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening.

    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 15:22 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

And if it be on her bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth,.... That is, if any person or thing should be upon her bed or seat; a vessel on her bed, or a vessel upon a vessel, as Aben Ezra expresses it:

when he toucheth it; that person or thing that should be on her bed or seat, as well as touch her bed or seat:

shall be unclean until the even; in a ceremonial sense; so defiling was a woman in such circumstances, and to whom the Scriptures often compare unclean persons and things: and Pliny (i) speaks of menstrues as very infectious, or worse, to various creatures and things, in a natural way.

(i) Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 15.

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

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kâbaç (“to wash”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “to wash” (kâbaç) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Genesis 49:11 shares the word «to wash» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “all” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. 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?
  5. The verb «הַנֹּגֵ֔עַ» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?

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