Leviticus 14:40

American Standard Version (1901)

then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְצִוָּה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְחִלְּצוּ֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲבָנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּהֵ֖ן הַנָּ֑גַע וְהִשְׁלִ֤יכוּ אֶתְהֶן֙ אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר אֶל־מָק֖וֹם טָמֵֽא׃

Transliteration

And ṣiwwāh the kōhēn and ḥillṣû ʾet-the-ʾăḇānîm which in-them the nāgaʿ and hišlîkû them unto-outside to-the-ʿîr unto-māqôm ṭāmēʾ.

Grammar Details

• *ṣiwwāh*: piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - shall command
• *kōhēn*: noun, masculine singular - priest
• *ḥillṣû*: piel perfect 3rd common plural - they shall remove/extract
• *ʾăḇānîm*: noun, feminine plural - stones
• *nāgaʿ*: noun, masculine singular - plague/mark/infection
• *hišlîkû*: hiphil perfect 3rd common plural - they shall throw/cast
• *ʿîr*: noun, feminine singular - city
• *māqôm*: noun, masculine singular - place
• *ṭāmēʾ*: adjective, masculine singular - unclean/impure

Word Meanings

• *ḥillṣû*: remove/extract/take out/pull out
• *nāgaʿ*: plague/mark/infection/affliction
• *hišlîkû*: throw/cast/discard/dispose of

Referenced Verses

• Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
• Ps 101:7-8 : 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes. 8 Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
• Prov 22:10 : 10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
• Prov 25:4-5 : 4 Take away the dross from the silver, And there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner: 5 Take away the wicked [from] before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
• Isa 1:25-26 : 25 and I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin; 26 and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.
• Matt 18:17 : 17 And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.
• John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
• 1 Cor 5:5-6 : 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
• Titus 3:10 : 10 A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;
• 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no greeting: 11 for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.
• Rev 2:2 : 2 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;
• Rev 2:6 : 6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
• Rev 2:14-16 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. 15 So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans in like manner. 16 Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have [this] against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.