The Meaning of Leviticus 22:12 Explained

Leviticus 22:12

KJV: If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

YLT: And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;

Darby: And a priest's daughter who is married to a stranger may not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

ASV: And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

If the priest's  daughter  also be [married] unto a stranger,  she may not eat  of an offering  of the holy things. 

What does Leviticus 22:12 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Leviticus 22

1  The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things
6  How they shall be cleansed
10  Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things
17  The sacrifices must be without blemish
26  The age of the sacrifice
29  The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving

What do the individual words in Leviticus 22:12 mean?

And daughter of the priest if is married to an outsider she of offerings the holy not may eat
וּבַת־ כֹּהֵ֔ן כִּ֥י תִהְיֶ֖ה לְאִ֣ישׁ זָ֑ר הִ֕וא בִּתְרוּמַ֥ת הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖ים לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽל

וּבַת־  And  daughter 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: בַּת  
Sense: daughter.
כֹּהֵ֔ן  of  the  priest 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֹּהֵן  
Sense: priest, principal officer or chief ruler.
תִהְיֶ֖ה  is  married 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
זָ֑ר  an  outsider 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: זוּר 
Sense: to be strange, be a stranger.
הִ֕וא  she 
Parse: Pronoun, third person feminine singular
Root: הוּא 
Sense: he, she, it.
בִּתְרוּמַ֥ת  of  offerings 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: תְּרוּמָה  
Sense: contribution, offering.
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖ים  the  holy 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: קֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness.
תֹאכֵֽל  may  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.

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