The Meaning of Leviticus 12:5 Explained

Leviticus 12:5

KJV: But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

YLT: 'And if a female she bear, then she hath been unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and sixty and six days she doth abide for the blood of her cleansing.

Darby: And if she bear a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue sixty-six days in the blood of her cleansing.

ASV: But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But if she bear  a maid child,  then she shall be unclean  two weeks,  as in her separation:  and she shall continue  in the blood  of her purifying  threescore  and six  days. 

What does Leviticus 12:5 Mean?

Context Summary

Leviticus 12:1-8 - Purification After Child-Bearing
The birth of a boy involved seven days' ceremonial defilement; of a girl, fourteen. Not the child, but the mother, was adjudged to be unclean, securing her a period of retirement and rest. The gracious gradation in the sacrifices made it possible for the poorest to obey, and it is a memorable fact that the mother of our Lord brought two pigeons or doves-meet emblems of her gentle nature-when she presented her babe in the Temple. See Luke 2:24. Our Lord became poor, that through His poverty we might be eternally enriched. In the light of this ceremonial, we are led back to Psalms 51:5, which we must personally and sadly ponder.
The initial rite of the Hebrew religion stood for separation. The parent taught the child to remember that he belonged to a separated race. It was impossible for him to consort with those who were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. We all need to undergo the circumcision of Christ, which consists in putting away the sins of the flesh, and ceasing to trust in our own energy. See Colossians 2:11-12. [source]

Chapter Summary: Leviticus 12

1  The purification of a woman after childbirth
6  Her offerings for her purifying

What do the individual words in Leviticus 12:5 mean?

But if a female child she bears then she shall be unclean two weeks as in her customary impurity and sixty days and six days she shall continue in the blood of [her] purification
וְאִם־ נְקֵבָ֣ה תֵלֵ֔ד וְטָמְאָ֥ה שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְשֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֔ים תֵּשֵׁ֖ב עַל־ דְּמֵ֥י טָהֳרָֽה

וְאִם־  But  if 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Conjunction
Root: אִם  
Sense: if.
נְקֵבָ֣ה  a  female  child 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: נְקֵבָה  
Sense: female.
תֵלֵ֔ד  she  bears 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: יָלַד 
Sense: to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail.
וְטָמְאָ֥ה  then  she  shall  be  unclean 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: טָמֵא 
Sense: to be unclean, become unclean, become impure.
שְׁבֻעַ֖יִם  two  weeks 
Parse: Noun, md
Root: שָׁבוּעַ 
Sense: seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, week.
כְּנִדָּתָ֑הּ  as  in  her  customary  impurity 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: נִדָּה  
Sense: impurity, filthiness, menstruous, set apart.
וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים  and  sixty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: שִׁשִּׁים  
Sense: sixty, three score.
יוֹם֙  days 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
וְשֵׁ֣שֶׁת  and  six 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, masculine singular construct
Root: שֵׁשׁ  
Sense: six.
יָמִ֔ים  days 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
תֵּשֵׁ֖ב  she  shall  continue 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: יָשַׁב 
Sense: to dwell, remain, sit, abide.
דְּמֵ֥י  the  blood 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: דָּם  
Sense: blood.
טָהֳרָֽה  of  [her]  purification 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: טָהֳרָה  
Sense: purifying, cleansing, purification, purity, cleanness.

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