Leviticus 7:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.

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לְמָנָֽה

mânâh

H4490

“to/for · portion”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 29:26

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4487

TWOT: 1213a

part, portion

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 →

13: words
11: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is לְמָנָֽה portion H4490 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְמָנָֽה portion H4490 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
8 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

הַמַּקְרִ֞יב Hiphil · Participle Active
תִהְיֶ֛ה Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 21 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

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 7:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 6:1–30 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 26:1–46 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 7:3 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 7:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

הַמַּקְרִ֞יב אֶת דַּ֧ם הַשְּׁלָמִ֛ים וְאֶת הַחֵ֖לֶב מִבְּנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֑ן ל֧וֹ תִהְיֶ֛ה שׁ֥וֹק הַיָּמִ֖ין לְמָנָֽה

He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 7:33 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ προςφέρω ὁ αἷμα ὁ σωτήριον καί ὁ στέαρ ἀπό ὁ υἱός ἀαρών αὐτός εἰμί ὁ βραχίων ὁ δεξιός ἐν μερίς

No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. 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)

דִמְקָרֵב יָת דָם נִכְסַת קוּדְשַׁיָא וְיָת תַּרְבָּא מִבְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן דִילֵהּ תְּהֵי שׁוֹקָא דְיַמִינָא לָחֳלָק

(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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

מַאן דִמְקַרֵב יַת אֲדַם נִכְסַת קוּדְשַׁיָא וְיַת תְּרֵיב מִן בְּנֵי אַהֲרן דִילֵיהּ תְּהֵי שַׁקָא דְיַמִינָא לְחוּלַק

He of the sons of Aharon who offereth the blood and the fat of the hallowed sacrifice shall have the right shoulder as his portion.

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 7:33 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 7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his] part.

Ver. 33. He among the sons of Aaron.] The breast belonged to the high priest and his family; but the right shoulder was for the priest that did officiate, or do the office of a priest, for that turn.

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

For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel,.... These two parts were particularly pitched upon and selected:

from off the sacrifices of their peace offering; the rest being allowed the owners, besides what were burnt:

and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons, by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel; as long as the priesthood lasted, even to the coming of the Messiah, in whom all these sacrifices would have their accomplishment and their end.

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

PORTION OF THE PRIESTS, Lev_7:11-34.

33. Shall have the right shoulder — Because this was not easily divisible it could not be shared by the families of the priests in common. Hence it is divinely allotted to him who sprinkles the blood.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

For I have taken

Here "I" refers to Yahweh.

that is the contribution

"that is given as an offering"

translationWords

priest

Aaron

descend

blood

peace offering

raise

Israel

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

‎'וגו‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‏‎ השלמים ‎ ‏‏‎דם‎ ‎את ‎‎המקריב‎ [HE AMONG THE SONS OF AARON] THAT OFFERETH THE BLOOD OF THE PEACE-OFFERINGS [AND THE FAT SHALL HAVE THE SHOULDER OF THE RIGHT SIDE FOR HIS PART] — “He that offereth the blood” means: he who is fitted to perform the sprinkling of it and to burn the fat portions, — thus excluding a priest who was unclean at the time when the blood was sprinkled, or the fat portions were burnt — that he does not share in the flesh (Sifra, Tzav, Chapter 16 8; Zevachim 98b).

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

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mânâh (“portion”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “portion” (mânâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Exodus 29:26, which shares the word «portion», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«הַמַּקְרִ֞יב» is a Hiphil Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 21 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.