Leviticus 15:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 15:27 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 these things shall be unclean, and 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 these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and 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 them shall be unclean. And he 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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And whosoeuer toucheth these things, shall be vncleane, and shall wash his clothes, and wash him selfe in water, and shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Whosoever toucheth them shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and any one who is coming against them is unclean, and hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and anyone who is coming against them is unclean, and has washed his garments, and has bathed with water, and been unclean until the evening.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Whoever touches any of those things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And any person who touches them shall be unclean. And he 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 them shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And whoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and 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 them 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 these things will be unclean, and his clothing will have to be washed and his body bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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וְכִבֶּ֧ס
kâbaç
H3526
“and · to wash”
Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Verb
Stem
Piel
Form
Sequential Perfect
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. הַנּוֹגֵ֥עַ nâgaʻ H5060 “the · touching” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. יִטְמָ֑א ṭâmêʼ H2930 “to be unclean” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. בְּגָדָ֛יו beged H899 “garments · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. וְרָחַ֥ץ râchats H7364 “and · to wash” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. בַּמַּ֖יִם mayim H4325 “in/at the · water(s)” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. וְטָמֵ֥א ṭâmêʼ H2930 “and · to be unclean” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. עַד ʻad H5704 “until” Preposition
  9. הָעָֽרֶב ʻereb H6153 “the · evening” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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11
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • הַנּוֹגֵ֥עַ Qal · Participle Active
  • יִטְמָ֑א Qal · Imperfect
  • וְכִבֶּ֧ס Piel · Sequential Perfect
  • וְרָחַ֥ץ Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • וְטָמֵ֥א Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

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

  • יִטְמָ֑א to be unclean H2930 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 26 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 20 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

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Topical passages linked to Leviticus 15:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 15:5–8 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Leviticus 15:13 "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
  • Leviticus 15:21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Leviticus 17:15–16 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
  • Ezekiel 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
  • Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
  • Zechariah 13:1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Hebrews 10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
  • 1 Peter 1:18–19 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 15:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְכָל הַנּוֹגֵ֥עַ בָּ֖ם יִטְמָ֑א וְכִבֶּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד הָעָֽרֶב

Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 15:27 Septuagint · lemma form

πᾶς ὁ ἅπτομαι αὐτός ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί καί πλύνω ὁ ἱμάτιον καί λούω ὁ σῶμα ὕδωρ καί ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί ἕως ἑσπέρα

Every one that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till 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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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)
    וְכָל דְיִקְרַב בְּהוֹן יְהֵי מְסָאָב וִיצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹהִי וְיַסְחֵי בְמַיָא וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא

    (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)
    וְכָל מַאן דְיִקְרַב בְּהוֹן יְהֵי מְסָאָב וִיצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹי וְיַסְחֵי בְּאַרְבְּעִין סָאוִוין דְמוֹי וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא

    And whoever toucheth those (things) shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until the 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 15:27 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

But if she be cleansed of her issue,.... The disease is healed, or a stop is put to it; there are no signs of it remaining:

then she shall number to herself seven days; from the time she observed it to cease:

and after that she shall be clean; having bathed herself according to the usual manner of unclean persons, for their cleansing; when she would be fit to be admitted to her husband, though not as yet into the tabernacle, until she had offered her offering next directed to.

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

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 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. The word kâbaç carries the sense “to wash.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Genesis 49:11, which shares the word «to wash», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to be unclean” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «הַנּוֹגֵ֥עַ» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?

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