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לֹג

log

‘log’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H3849 Strong's Hebrew
lôg Transliteration
/lohg/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 5 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

לג — transliterated lôg — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “log.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Leviticus (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Leviticus 14:10, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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Modern gloss
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Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H3849 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Leviticus 14:10
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Leviticus 14:10.
Leviticus 14:24
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Leviticus 14:24.
#3,337
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 5 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Log 4×
  • American Standard Version: Log 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Log 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Log of 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3849 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Log” 4×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3849 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Log” 5×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3849 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Log” 4×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3849 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Log of” 4×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. log
  2. a liquid measure equal to about one half litre

Word origin

n.m. Lv 14:10 a liquid measure (NH id.; Aramaic לוּגָּה; also ܠܰܓܳܐ, ܠܰܓܬܳܐ a (dessert-)dish, etc.; meaning of √ dub.; Thes comp. Arabic لَجَّ be deep, لُجٌّ depth, abyss);—ל׳ abs. Lv 14:10; cstr. v 12 + 3 times Lv 14; always of oil (שֶׁמֶן); Lv 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24 (P; all in law of purif. of leper); according to Talm. = 1/12 hin (v. הִין supr. p. 228; Zuckermann Jüd. Masssystem, 49) i.e. c. 1/2 litre; BenzArch. 182, 184 NowArch. i. 204 f.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from כד (kad) (H3537) — jar.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 1076


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

לֹג

  • , v. לוֹג, לוּגָּא.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms H3849 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
וְ/לֹ֥ג Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 14:10 2
לֹ֣ג Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 14:12 2
מִ/לֹּ֣ג Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct Leviticus 14:15 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3849, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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