Leviticus 4:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:

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הַמָּשִׁ֖יחַ

mâshîyach

H4899

“the · anointed one”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 39× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 4:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4886

TWOT: 1255c

anointed, anointed one - of the Messiah, Messianic prince - of the king of Israel - of the high priest of Israel - of Cyrus - of the patriarchs as anointed kings

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
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַמָּשִׁ֖יחַ anointed one H4899 occurs in 38 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

וְהֵבִ֛יא Hiphil · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 18 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 4:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 4:5–12 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
Hebrews 9:12–14 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 4:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהֵבִ֛יא הַכֹּהֵ֥ן הַמָּשִׁ֖יחַ מִדַּ֣ם הַפָּ֑ר אֶל אֹ֖הֶל מוֹעֵֽד

The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 4:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἰςφέρω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ χριστός ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ὁ μόσχος εἰς ὁ σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον

And the anointed priest shall bring in of the blood of the calf into the tabernacle of witness.

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)

וְיָעֵל כַּהֲנָא רַבָּא מִדְמָא דְתוֹרָא לְמַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְיֵיעוּל כַּהֲנָא רַבָּא מִן אַדְמָא דְתוֹרָא לְמַשְׁכַּן זִימְנָא

And the high priest shall carry some of the blood of the bullock into the tabernacle of ordinance.

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 4:16 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lev 4:16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:

Ver. 16. And the priest that is anointed,] i.e., The high priest; a type of Christ, who was anointed, not with material oil, as they, but with the Spirit, that oil of gladness, both above and for his fellow brethren. {Psa 45:1-17 Heb 1:9} See 1Jn 2:27 2Co 1:21-22. Howbeit his oil shines brightest, and swims aloft above all others.

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.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(16-21) The rest of the regulations are exactly the same as those prescribed in the sin offering for the high priest himself in Lev_4:5-12.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

When a ruler hath sinned,.... Or "prince", the "nasi", one that is lifted up above others in honour, power, and authority, or that bears the weight of government: the word comes from one which signifies to lift up, or to bear; it may be understood of a governor of a family, or of a tribe, as Aben Ezra observes; and so in the Talmud (k) it is said, it means the prince of a tribe, such as Nachson the son of Amminadab, prince of the tribe of Judah. Maimonides (l) says a king is designed, over whom none has power; and so Gersom on the place, who observes, that David the king is called a prince, Eze 34:24.

and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God; the phrase, "his God", is here added, and is not used neither of the anointed priest, nor of the congregation, nor of one of the common people; only of the prince, to show, that though he is above others, God is above him, and he is accountable to him; he is his God, of whom he is, and by whom he rules; wherefore if he breaks any of his commandments, though ignorantly, he must bring a sacrifice for it:

concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; of transgressing negative precepts, which are as binding on him as others.

(k) T. Bab. Horayot, fol. 11. 1. (l) Hilchot Shegagot, c. 15. sect. 6.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues telling Moses what the people must do.

The anointed priest will bring some of the blood

It is implied that the priest caught the blood in a bowl as the blood drained from the bull. (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

before the curtain

It is implied that this is the curtain before the most holy place. (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

translationWords

anoint

priest

cow

tent of meeting

Yahweh

curtain

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâshîyach (“anointed one”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “anointed one” (mâshîyach) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Leviticus 4:3, which shares the word «anointed one», read alongside this verse?
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?
«וְהֵבִ֛יא» is a Hiphil Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.