Leviticus 8:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Download a study sheet

One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.

This verse Autodidact and up

Study sheet (.html) Plain text (.txt)

A passage Seminary Student

Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.

Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.

Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer

Word by word

More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →

Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →

תְּנ֤וּךְ

tᵉnûwk

H8571

“lobe of”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 29:20

Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps from the same as H594 through the idea of protraction

TWOT: 2527a

tip, lobe (of ear)

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 →

27: words
18: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is תְּנ֤וּךְ lobe H8571 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תְּנ֤וּךְ lobe H8571 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
14 nouns
3 adjectives
5 prepositions
2 particles

Verb forms

וַיַּקְרֵ֞ב Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּתֵּ֨ן Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּזְרֹ֨ק Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַל upon H5921 ×4
הַיְמָנִ֔ית right hand H3233 ×3
מֹשֶׁ֤ה Moses H4872 ×2
הַדָּם֙ blood H1818 ×2
בֹּ֤הֶן thumb H931 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 45 words from the Hebrew and 35 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 27 Hebrew tokens and 46 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 8:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Hebrews 9:18–22 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

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 8:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּקְרֵ֞ב אֶת בְּנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֗ן וַיִּתֵּ֨ן מֹשֶׁ֤ה מִן הַדָּם֙ עַל תְּנ֤וּךְ אָזְנָם֙ הַיְמָנִ֔ית וְעַל בֹּ֤הֶן יָדָם֙ הַיְמָנִ֔ית וְעַל בֹּ֥הֶן רַגְלָ֖ם הַיְמָנִ֑ית וַיִּזְרֹ֨ק מֹשֶׁ֧ה אֶת הַדָּ֛ם עַל הַֽמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ סָבִֽיב

He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 8:24 Septuagint · lemma form

καί προςἄγω μωυσῆς ὁ υἱός ἀαρών καί ἐπιτίθημι μωυσῆς ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ἐπί ὁ λοβός ὁ οὖς ὁ δεξιός καί ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ χείρ αὐτός ὁ δεξιός καί ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ πούς αὐτός ὁ δεξιός καί προςχέω μωυσῆς ὁ αἷμα ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύκλος

And he took the fat, and the rump, and the fat on the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder.

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)

וְקָרֵיב יָת בְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן וִיהַב מֹשֶׁה מִן דְמָא עַל רוּם אוּדְנֵהוֹן דְיַמִינָא וְעַל אִלְיוֹן יְדֵיהוֹן דְיַמִינָא וְעַל אִלְיוֹן רַגְלֵיהוֹן דְיַמִינָא וּזְרַק מֹשֶׁה יָת דְמָא עַל מַדְבְּחָא סְחוֹר סְחוֹר

(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)

וּקְרֵיב יַת בְּנֵי אַהֲרן וִיהַב משֶׁה מִן אַדְמָא עַל גְדֵירָא מִיצְעָא דְאוּדְנֵיהוֹן יְמִינָא וְעַל פּוּרְקָא מִיצְעָא דְיַדֵיהוֹן יְמִינָא וְעַל פּוּרְקָא מִיצְעָא דְרִיגְלֵיהוֹן דְיַמִינָא וּדְרַק משֶׁה יַת כָּל מוֹתַר אַדְמָא עַל מַדְבְּחָא חֲזוֹר חֲזוֹר

And he brought the sons of Aharon, and Mosheh put of the blood upon the middle cartilage of their right ears, and upon the middle joint of their right feet, and Mosheh poured out all the remaining blood upon the altar round about.

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 8:24 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 →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(24) And he brought Aaron’s sons.—Having performed these symbolical acts upon the high priest, Moses now repeats the same in the case of the four ordinary priests. The right members were chosen for these symbolical acts because they are represented as the strongest, and are therefore most able to execute the will of God (see also Exo_29:20). The cured leper had the same parts of the body touched with the blood of the trespass offering. (See Lev_14:14-17.)

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

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 27 words (18 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tᵉnûwk (“lobe”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “lobe” (tᵉnûwk) shape what this verse is saying?
Exodus 29:20 shares the word «lobe» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“upon” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיַּקְרֵ֞ב» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?

Things to notice

This verse counts 27 Hebrew ↔ 46 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 24 words in this verse.
“upon” occurs 4× in this single verse.
18 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 27 words in this verse.