Leviticus 3:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בְּכֹ֖ל מֽוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶ֑ם כָּל־חֵ֥לֶב וְכָל־דָּ֖ם לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

ḥuqqat ʿôlām for your dōrōt in all your môšābōt: all ḥēleb and all dām not tōʾkēlû.

Grammar Details

• *ḥuqqat*: feminine singular construct - 'statute of'
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - 'eternity/perpetuity'
• לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם: preposition + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'for your generations'
• בְּכֹל: preposition + construct state - 'in all'
• *môšābōt*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'your dwelling places'
• כָּל: construct state - 'all of'
• *ḥēleb*: masculine singular noun - 'fat'
• וְכָל: conjunction + construct state - 'and all of'
• *dām*: masculine singular noun - 'blood'
• לֹא: negative particle - 'not'
• *tōʾkēlû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - 'you shall eat'

Word Meanings

• *ḥuqqat*: statute/ordinance/decree/prescribed limit
• *ʿôlām*: long duration/forever/perpetuity/eternity
• *dōrōt*: generations/periods/ages
• *môšābōt*: dwelling places/settlements/habitations
• *ḥēleb*: fat/best part
• *dām*: blood
• *tōʾkēlû*: you shall eat/consume/devour

Referenced Verses

• Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
• Lev 6:18 : 18 All the mas among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
• Lev 17:7 : 7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
• Deut 12:16 : 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
• Deut 12:23 : 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
• Deut 15:23 : 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
• Lev 7:36 : 36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
• Lev 3:16 : 16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.
• Lev 23:14 : 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Eph 1:7 : 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
• Eph 5:26 : 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
• Acts 15:20-21 : 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preh him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
• Num 19:21 : 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
• Lev 7:23 : 23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
• Lev 7:25-27 : 25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his peop. 26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his peop.
• Lev 16:34 : 34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Lev 17:10-16 : 10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his peop. 11 For the life of the fsh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all fsh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of fsh: for the life of all fsh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 15 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be uncan until the even: then shall he be can. 16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his fsh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
• Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
• 1 Sam 14:32-34 : 32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood. 33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. 34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
• Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: ither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
• Ezek 33:25 : 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
• Ezek 44:7 : 7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
• Matt 16:24 : 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.