The Meaning of Leviticus 22:13 Explained

Leviticus 22:13

KJV: But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

YLT: and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.

Darby: But a priest's daughter that becometh a widow, or is divorced, and hath no seed, and returneth unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; but no stranger shall eat thereof.

ASV: But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But if the priest's  daughter  be a widow,  or divorced,  and have no child,  and is returned  unto her father's  house,  as in her youth,  she shall eat  of her father's  meat:  but there shall no stranger  eat  thereof. 

What does Leviticus 22:13 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 22:13 mean?

But daughter of the priest if is a widow or divorced and has child no to her and has returned to house of her father as in her youth food of her father she may eat but outsider no shall eat it -
וּבַת־ כֹּהֵן֩ כִּ֨י תִהְיֶ֜ה אַלְמָנָ֣ה וּגְרוּשָׁ֗ה וְזֶרַע֮ אֵ֣ין לָהּ֒ וְשָׁבָ֞ה אֶל־ בֵּ֤ית אָבִ֙יהָ֙ כִּנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ מִלֶּ֥חֶם אָבִ֖יהָ תֹּאכֵ֑ל וְכָל־ זָ֖ר לֹא־ יֹ֥אכַל בּֽוֹ ס

וּבַת־  But  daughter 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: בַּת  
Sense: daughter.
כֹּהֵן֩  of  the  priest 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֹּהֵן  
Sense: priest, principal officer or chief ruler.
אַלְמָנָ֣ה  a  widow 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אַלְמָנָה  
Sense: widow.
וּגְרוּשָׁ֗ה  or  divorced 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, feminine singular
Root: גָּרַשׁ 
Sense: to drive out, expel, cast out, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, cast up.
וְזֶרַע֮  and  has  child 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: זֶרַע  
Sense: seed, sowing, offspring.
אֵ֣ין  no 
Parse: Adverb
Root: אַיִן 
Sense: nothing, not, nought n.
לָהּ֒  to  her 
Parse: Preposition, third person feminine singular
וְשָׁבָ֞ה  and  has  returned 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: שׁוּב  
Sense: to return, turn back.
בֵּ֤ית  house 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
אָבִ֙יהָ֙  of  her  father 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.
כִּנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ  as  in  her  youth 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: נְעוּרִים 
Sense: youth, early life.
מִלֶּ֥חֶם  food 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: לֶחֶם  
Sense: bread, food, grain.
אָבִ֖יהָ  of  her  father 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.
תֹּאכֵ֑ל  she  may  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
זָ֖ר  outsider 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: זוּר 
Sense: to be strange, be a stranger.
לֹא־  no 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יֹ֥אכַל  shall  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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