וְנָתַתָּ֤ עָלֶ֨יהָ֙ שֶׁ֔מֶן וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ לְבֹנָ֑ה מִנְחָ֖ה הִֽוא
You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 2:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 2:15 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.
English Translation
You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
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Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put oil on it, and you shall place frankincense on it. It a grain offering.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meal-offering.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meal offering.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
After, thou shalt put oyle vpon it, and lay incense thereon: for it is a meate offring.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is the oblation of the Lord.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and thou hast put on it oil, and laid on it frankincense, it `is' a present;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and you have put oil on it, and laid frankincense on it, [for] it [is] a present;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then you must put oil and incense on it. This is a grain offering.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall put oil on it, and you shall place frankincense on it. It a grain offering.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil on it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is an oblation.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense upon it: it is a meat-offering.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Put olive oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And put oil on it and perfume: it is a meal offering.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering.
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לְבֹנָ֑ה
lᵉbôwnâh
H3828
“frankincense”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 21× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 30:34
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
frankincense
- a white resin burned as fragrant incense
- ceremonially
- personally
- used in compounding the holy incense
- וְנָתַתָּ֤ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עָלֶ֨יהָ֙ ʻal H5921 “upon · her” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- שֶׁ֔מֶן shemen H8081 “fat” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ sûwm H7760 “and · to put” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עָלֶ֖יהָ ʻal H5921 “upon · her” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- לְבֹנָ֑ה lᵉbôwnâh H3828 “frankincense” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מִנְחָ֖ה minchâh H4503 “offering” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- הִֽוא hûwʼ H1931 “he” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לְבֹנָ֑ה frankincense H3828 — appearing just 21 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְבֹנָ֑ה frankincense H3828 occurs in 21 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- וְנָתַתָּ֤ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- עָלֶ֨יהָ֙ upon H5921 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 8 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.
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.
καί ἐπιχέω ἐπί αὐτός ἔλαιον καί ἐπιτίθημι ἐπί αὐτός λίβανος θυσία εἰμί
And you shall pour oil upon it, and shall put frankincense on it: it is a sacrifice.
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. Some Onkelos verses here show an unreviewed machine translation (clearly flagged), not a published edition.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִתֵּן עֲלַהּ מִשְׁחָא וּתְשַׁוֵי עֲלַהּ לְבוֹנְתָּא מִנְחָתָא הִיא
Unreviewed machine translation (Claude Sonnet 5) — not public domain confidence: high
And you shall put oil upon it, and set frankincense upon it; it is a meal offering.
Generated by an AI translate-then-audit pipeline and checked against an independent public-domain English translation of the underlying Hebrew for drift only. Not a published edition; pending human review.
Aramaic base: public-domain Targum Onkelos (via Sefaria). The English above is the unreviewed machine translation, not public domain.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִתֵּן עֲלָהּ מְשַׁח זֵיתָא וְתַשְׁוֵי עֲלָהּ לְבוֹנְתָא מִנְחָתָא הִיא
And thou shalt put olive oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a mincha.
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.
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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lᵉbôwnâh (“frankincense”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “frankincense” (lᵉbôwnâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 30:34 shares the word «frankincense» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “upon” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וְנָתַתָּ֤» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary 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 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “upon” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 2:15 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 →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.