Leviticus 2:15
in Leviticus 2And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meal-offering.
KJV
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
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This verse in Leviticus 2
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
green ears of corn dried by the fire
on Leviticus 2:14-16
The last form of the offering is the first of a harvest, green ears parched at the fire and corn beaten out of full ears. It is brought before the crop is in and before the year has shown what it will yield. Oil and frankincense return, the priest burns the memorial, and the chapter ends on the same handful it began with.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon,.... Either on the ears of corn dried, or on the fine flour of them when ground; in like manner as the oil and frankincense were put upon the fine flour of wheat, and upon the cakes and wafers baked, Lev 2:1. it is a meat offering; one sort of it, and like the rest.
That is not expected from green ears which one may justly look for from those that have been left to grow fully ripe. If those that are young do God's work as well as they can, they shall be accepted, though they cannot do it so well as those that are aged and experienced.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
“The word im (if) here has the meaning of ki (when), for the bringing [of this meal-offering of the first-fruits] is not a voluntary matter, since Scripture speaks here of the meal-offering of the new barley, which is obligatory. 230 Further:10.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְנָתַתָּ֤ | venatata | and you will put | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ | ʾaleiha | on it | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| שֶׁ֔מֶן | shemen | oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ | vesamta | and you will place | H7760 → | 584 times |
| עָלֶ֖יהָ | ʾaleiha | on it | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| לְבֹנָ֑ה | levonah | frankincense | H3828 → | 21 times |
| מִנְחָ֖ה | minchah | [is] a grain offering | H4503 → | 211 times |
| הִֽוא׃ | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְנָתַתָּ֤and you will put
venatataH5414 →2011 times
עָלֶ֙יהָ֙on it
ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times
שֶׁ֔מֶןoil
shemenH8081 →193 times
וְשַׂמְתָּ֥and you will place
vesamtaH7760 →584 times
עָלֶ֖יהָon it
ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times
לְבֹנָ֑הfrankincense
levonahH3828 →21 times
מִנְחָ֖ה[is] a grain offering
minchahH4503 →211 times
הִֽוא׃it
hi'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.