Leviticus 15:3
in Leviticus 15This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
KJV
And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
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This verse in Leviticus 15
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd this shall be his uncleanness in his issue,.... Or the sign of it, by which it may be judged whether he is unclean by it or no: whether his flesh run with his issue; or salivates, or emits a flow of matter like a saliva, or in the manner of spittle: or his flesh be stopped from his issue; with it, or because of it; because it is gross, as Jarchi says, it cannot come forth freely: it is his uncleanness; whether it be one or the other, he is reckoned on account of it an unclean person.
This site's exposition
spake unto Moses and to Aaron
on Leviticus 15:1-5
The chapter is spoken to Aaron as well as to Moses, which is the pattern across the clean and unclean laws at 11:1, 13:1 and 14:33, because a priest has to rule on them. The definition at verse 3 covers a flow that runs and a flow that is stopped, so the thing that makes the man unclean is the condition rather than what a bystander can see. From verse 4 the uncleanness moves outward onto his bed and his seat, and the rest of the case is about what he touches.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
His flesh be stopped - That is, if it have run, and be stopped in great measure, either by the grossness of the humour, or by some obstructions that it cannot run freely.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְזֹ֛את | vezot | and this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| תִּהְיֶ֥ה | tihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| טֻמְאָת֖וֹ | tumato | uncleanness his | H2932 → | 36 times |
| בְּזוֹב֑וֹ | bezovo | by discharge his | H2101 → | 13 times |
| רָ֣ר | rar | it has secreted | H7325 → | |
| בְּשָׂר֞וֹ | besaro | flesh his | H1320 → | 270 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| זוֹב֗וֹ | zovo | discharge his | H2101 → | 13 times |
| אֽוֹ־ | ʾov- | or | H176 → | 321 times |
| הֶחְתִּ֤ים | hechtim | it has been obstructed | H2856 → | |
| בְּשָׂרוֹ֙ | besaro | flesh his | H1320 → | 270 times |
| מִזּוֹב֔וֹ | mizovo | from discharge his | H2101 → | 13 times |
| טֻמְאָת֖וֹ | tumato | [is] uncleanness his | H2932 → | 36 times |
| הִֽוא׃ | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְזֹ֛אתand this
vezotH2063 →603 times
תִּהְיֶ֥הit will be
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
טֻמְאָת֖וֹuncleanness his
tumatoH2932 →36 times
בְּזוֹב֑וֹby discharge his
bezovoH2101 →13 times
רָ֣רit has secreted
rarH7325 →
בְּשָׂר֞וֹflesh his
besaroH1320 →270 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
זוֹב֗וֹdischarge his
zovoH2101 →13 times
אֽוֹ־or
ʾov-H176 →321 times
הֶחְתִּ֤יםit has been obstructed
hechtimH2856 →
בְּשָׂרוֹ֙flesh his
besaroH1320 →270 times
מִזּוֹב֔וֹfrom discharge his
mizovoH2101 →13 times
טֻמְאָת֖וֹ[is] uncleanness his
tumatoH2932 →36 times
הִֽוא׃it
hi'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 12:3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
it leads to
- Luke 2:21
When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.
- Luke 1:59
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- John 7:22–23
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
- Philippians 3:5
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
- Genesis 17:11–12
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- Luke 2:21
Through
Ezekiel 16:26You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 23:19–21
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
- Ezekiel 20:7–8
And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 23:19–21
Through
Ezekiel 23:20and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 17:15
But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break…
- Ezekiel 17:15
About Leviticus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.