Leviticus 2:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־תַּקְרִ֛יב מִנְחַ֥ת בִּכּוּרִ֖ים לַיהוָ֑ה אָבִ֞יב קָל֤וּי בָּאֵשׁ֙ גֶּ֣רֶשׂ כַּרְמֶ֔ל תַּקְרִ֕יב אֵ֖ת מִנְחַ֥ת בִּכּוּרֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

And if takriv minchat bikurim to YHWH, aviv kalui in ha'esh geres karmel takriv et minchat bikurecha.

Grammar Details

• *takriv*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall offer/bring near
• *minchat*: noun, feminine, singular construct - grain offering of
• *bikurim*: noun, masculine, plural - firstfruits
• *aviv*: noun, masculine, singular - fresh ears/young grain
• *kalui*: participle, qal, passive, masculine, singular - roasted/parched
• *ha'esh*: noun, feminine, singular with definite article - the fire
• *geres*: noun, masculine, singular - crushed grain/grits
• *karmel*: noun, masculine, singular - garden land/fresh grain
• *et minchat bikurecha*: direct object marker with noun, feminine, singular construct with noun, masculine, plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - the grain offering of your firstfruits

Word Meanings

• *aviv*: fresh ears/young grain/green ears
• *geres*: crushed grain/grits/coarsely ground grain
• *karmel*: garden land/fresh grain/fertile field

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:10 : 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
• Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
• Isa 53:2-9 : 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
• Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
• Num 28:2 : 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
• Deut 26:2 : 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
• 2 Kgs 4:42 : 42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
• Lev 23:14-17 : 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. 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
• Lev 23:20 : 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
• Gen 4:3 : 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
• Lev 22:29 : 29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.