וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ אֶת הַקֶּ֖רֶב וְאֶת הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר עַל הָעֹלָ֖ה הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה
He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 9:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 9:14 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
He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
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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
He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he washed the innards and the legs and he caused to become smoke on the burnt offering, on the altar.
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
He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt-offering on the altar.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Likewise he did wash the inwardes and the legs, and burnt them vpon the burnt offring on the Altar.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Having first washed the entrails and the feet with water.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and he washeth the inwards and the legs, and maketh perfume for the burnt-offering on the altar.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he washes the innards and the legs, and makes incense for the burnt-offering on the altar.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He washed the inner parts and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he washed the innards and the legs and he caused to become smoke on the burnt offering, on the altar.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burned [them] upon the burnt-offering, on the altar.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt-offering on the altar.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He washed the insides and the legs and burned them with the rest of the burnt offering on the altar.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the inside parts and the legs, when they had been washed with water, were burned on the burned offering on the altar.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar.
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הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם
kârâʻ
H3767
“the · legs”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute
- Appears 9× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 12:9
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Dual
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
leg
- וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ râchats H7364 “and · to wash” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַקֶּ֖רֶב qereb H7130 “the · midst” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם kârâʻ H3767 “the · legs” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute
- וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר qâṭar H6999 “and · to burn incense” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- הָעֹלָ֖ה ʻôlâh H5930 “the · burnt offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה mizbêach H4196 “the · altar · toward” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם leg H3767 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם leg H3767 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 16 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
1Topical passages linked to Leviticus 9:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Leviticus 8:21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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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 πλύνω ὁ κοιλία καί ὁ πούς ὕδωρ καί ἐπιτίθημι ἐπί ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον
And he washed the belly and the feet with water, and he put them on the whole burnt offering on the altar.
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְחַלִיל יָת גַוָא וְיָת כְּרָעַיָא וְאַסֵק עַל עֲלָתָא לְמַדְבְּחָא
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְחַלִיל יַת בְּנֵי גַוָוא וְיַת רִיגְלַיָא וְאַסֵיק עַל עֲלָתָא לְמַדְבְּחָא
And he washed the inwards and the fat, and burned the burnt offering, at the altar.
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 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kârâʻ (“leg”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “leg” (kârâʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 12:9 shares the word «leg» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 9:14 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 →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.