Leviticus 7:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,

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הָֽאַלְיָ֔ה

ʼalyâh

H451

“the · tail”

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

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 29:22

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H422 (in the original sense of strength)

TWOT: 95a

tail, fat-tail (of sheep - an Eastern delicacy)

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 →

12: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הָֽאַלְיָ֔ה tail H451 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הָֽאַלְיָ֔ה tail H451 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
1 preposition
4 particles

Verb forms

יַקְרִ֣יב Hiphil · Imperfect
הַֽמְכַסֶּ֥ה Piel · Participle Active

Repetition

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

חֶלְבּ֖וֹ fat H2459 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 7:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 29:13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
Leviticus 3:15–16 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Leviticus 3:3–5 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
Leviticus 3:9–11 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
Leviticus 4:8–10 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
Psalms 51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

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

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.

Hebrew Leviticus 7:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֵ֥ת כָּל חֶלְבּ֖וֹ יַקְרִ֣יב מִמֶּ֑נּוּ אֵ֚ת הָֽאַלְיָ֔ה וְאֶת הַחֵ֖לֶב הַֽמְכַסֶּ֥ה אֶת הַקֶּֽרֶב

He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 7:3 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πᾶς ὁ στέαρ αὐτός προςφέρω ἀπό αὐτός καί ὁ ὀσφύς καί πᾶς ὁ στέαρ ὁ κατακαλύπτω ὁ ἐνδόσθια καί πᾶς ὁ στέαρ ὁ ἐπί ὁ ἐνδόσθια

With leavened bread he shall offer his gifts, with the peace-offering of praise.

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)

וְיָת כָּל תַּרְבֵּהּ יַפְרֵשׁ מִנֵהּ יָת אֲלִיתָא וְיָת תַּרְבָּא דְחָפֵי יָת גַוָא

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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)

וְיַת כָּל תַּרְבֵּיהּ יִקְרַב מִנֵיהּ יַת אָלִיתָא וְיַת תַּרְבָּא דַחֲפֵי יַת בְּנֵי גַוָוא

And he shall offer all the fat thereof, and the tail, and the fat which covereth the inwards;

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 7:3 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 7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

Ver. 3. That covereth the inwards.] "My son, give me thy heart." See Psa 51:6 Jer 4:14.

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

7:3-4 The guilt offering required the sacrifice of a ram (5:18). • fat . . . tail . . . organs: The parts of the guilt offering to be burned were the same as those for the peace offering (3:3-4, 9-10, 14-15) and the sin offering (4:8-9, 26, 31, 35).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

The high Priest.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 3. The rump] See Clarke on Le 3:9, where the principal subjects in this chapter are explained, being nearly the same in both.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(3, 4) And he shall offer.—For the regulations here described, see Lev_3:3-4; Lev_3:8-9, &c.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. the fat tail] See note on Lev_3:9.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof,.... To the Lord, that being claimed by him, as in the peace offerings of the herd, and of the flock, whether a bullock or cow, a lamb or a goat, Lev 3:3, &c. and in the sin offering of the bullock, Lev 1:8,

and the rump, or tail, which of sheep and rams, for the trespass offering, was very large and fat in those countries; See Gill on Exo 29:22, Lev 3:9,

and the fat that covereth the inwards; called the "omentum".

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

3. The fat — See Lev_3:3; Lev_3:17, notes.

The rump — The fat tail. See Lev_3:9, note.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ואת ‎'כל חלבו וגו‎ [HE SHALL OFFER OF IT] ALL THE FAT etc. — So far the fat portions of the guilt offering that have to be offered have not yet been mentioned as having to be burnt (though the אשם itself has already been dealt with in Leviticus 5:15), Scripture therefore was compelled expressly to specify them here. So far, however, as the sin-offering is concerned, it (the burning of their fat) has already been mentioned in the Sedrah ויקרא (Leviticus ch. 4), therefore it was unnecessary to mention it in 6:18—23.

את האליה THE FAT TAIL — Because only a ram or a lamb can be offered as a guilt-offering and the altar’s share in the case of a ram and lamb has been augmented by the fat tail (cf. Leviticus 3:9), therefore it is here naturally mentioned as having to be burnt.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). 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 12 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼalyâh (“tail”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼalyâh carries the sense “tail.” How does it shape the verse?
Exodus 29:22 shares the word «tail» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“fat” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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?
The verb «יַקְרִ֣יב» is Hiphil Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
“fat” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.