Leviticus 17:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹא־יִזְבְּח֥וּ עוֹד֙ אֶת־זִבְחֵיהֶ֔ם לַשְּׂעִירִ֕ם אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥ם זֹנִ֖ים אַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם חֻקַּ֥ת עוֹלָ֛ם תִּֽהְיֶה־זֹּ֥את לָהֶ֖ם לְדֹרֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

And not yizbĕḥû again et-zibḥêhem to the śĕʿîrîm which they zōnîm after them; ḥuqqat ʿôlām tihyeh-zōʾt to them for their dōrōtām

Grammar Details

• *yizbĕḥû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they shall sacrifice
• *et-zibḥêhem*: direct object marker + noun, masculine plural with 3rd person plural suffix - their sacrifices
• *śĕʿîrîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the goat-demons/satyrs
• *zōnîm*: Qal participle, masculine plural - committing harlotry/being unfaithful
• *ḥuqqat*: noun, feminine singular construct - statute/ordinance of
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - eternity/perpetuity
• *tihyeh-zōʾt*: Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular + demonstrative pronoun - this shall be
• *dōrōtām*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their generations

Word Meanings

• *yizbĕḥû*: they shall sacrifice/offer
• *zibḥêhem*: their sacrifices/offerings
• *śĕʿîrîm*: goat-demons/satyrs/goat idols
• *zōnîm*: playing the harlot/being unfaithful/committing idolatry
• *ḥuqqat*: statute/ordinance/regulation
• *ʿôlām*: perpetual/everlasting/forever
• *dōrōtām*: their generations/throughout their generations

Referenced Verses

• Exod 34:15 : 15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;
• Deut 32:17 : 17 They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
• 2 Chr 11:15 : 15 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.
• 1 Cor 10:20 : 20 But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.
• Ps 106:37 : 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
• Lev 20:5 : 5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• Exod 22:20 : 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed.
• Exod 32:8 : 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Rev 9:20 : 20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:
• Rev 17:1-5 : 1 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, {G3427} Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters; 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication. 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, 5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
• Eph 2:2 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
• Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
• Ezek 23:8 : 8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.
• John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
• John 14:30 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath {G3756} nothing in me;