Leviticus 2:7

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

ואם וְאִם־

and if

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wə

Definition

and

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

The conjunctive ו is not merely a fixed coordinator with a stable semantic value (“and/but/or/then”). Its core function is linkage, not meaning. It binds units into a single discourse field—phrases, clauses, or whole scenes—while leaving the logical relation to be inferred from aspect, word order, genre, and context.

So the variability in translation (“and / but / or / even / then”) is not polyvalence in the particle; it is underspecification by design. The language expects the reader/hearer to perceive the relation rather than have it encoded.

Crucially, conjunctive ו does not imply temporal sequence. It implies continuity of attention. Think of it as:
- “this belongs with what precedes,”
- “remain within the same frame,”
“do not reset the discourse.”
This is why Hebrew can chain dozens of clauses with ו without subordination or explicit logic markers. The text advances by accumulation, not by branching syntactic trees. Meaning arises from the interaction:
- Aspect (qatal / yiqtol / participle),
- Position (fronted elements, resumptive nouns),
- Genre (law, narrative, oracle),
- Context (who speaks, to whom).
The ו simply keeps the circuit closed so these cues can operate together. Remove tense assumptions, and the system becomes coherent.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

אם

ʼim

Definition

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

Root

a primitive particle;

Exhaustive

a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not; (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), though, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] unless, [phrase] verily, when, whereas, whether, while, [phrase] yet.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H518

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

אִם

conjunction • Strongs_Numbers • Page 146

If; a conditional conjunction.

אִם

conjunction • Strongs_Numbers • Page 147

Conditional particle corresponding to 'if', 'whether', or 'although'. It is used with perfect and imperfect tenses to express conditions, repeated acts, or permanent states. In formulas of swearing (oaths), it implies a negative ('surely not'). It can also introduce a question.

אִם

conj. / particle • Strongs_Numbers • Page 148

Conditional particle indicating 'if', 'whether', 'either...or'; also used as a particle of time: 'when', 'since'; a particle of wishing: 'oh if!', 'would that!'; and sometimes as an exclamation: 'behold!', 'lo!'.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אִם

primitive particle • Page 54

1. adv. of time, when; referring either to time past, like the Germ. da, als, Am. 7: 2 when they had en-

אִם

conj. / adv. / interrog. particle • Page 55

A conditional and interrogative particle with multiple senses: 2. if, supposing that; 3. although (Judg. 13:16); 4. O that (Gen. 30:27); 5. whether... or (Ex. 19:13); 6. in swearing (not, that not; 2 Sam. 11:11); 7. perhaps that (Gen. 31:52); 8. interrogative (Jer. 3:5); 11. whether...not (Est. 4:14); 13. (אם-לא) if not, but (Gen. 24:58).

Conjunction, Particle

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0518a:

No stats available

מנחת מִנְחַת

an offering

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

מנחה

minchâh

Definition

a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)

Root

from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow;

Exhaustive

from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow; a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary); gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4503

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

מִנְחָה

noun feminine • Root מנה • Strongs / High • Page 873

A present, gift, offered to a noble or a king; tribute, impost; particularly what is presented to God, a sacrifice, especially a meat and drink offering.

מִנְחָה

aram. fem. (aramaic) • Root מנה • Strongs / High • Page 873

Aramaic feminine noun, same as the Hebrew word.

מִנְחָה

noun feminine • Root מנא מנה • Strongs / High • Page 875

A contribution or appointed gift, for the king, priests, Levites, or singers. Can also mean a portion, lot, or portion of prey.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מִנְחָה

f. verbal • Root מנה • Page 386

A present, gift (Gen. 32:14); particularly a present or offering to the deity, such as a meat or drink offering (Gen. 4:3-5, Lev. 2:1); a sacrifice and offering (Ps. 40:7); a tribute, custom, to a ruling nation (2 Sam. 8:2,6, 1 K. 5:1).

מִנְחָה

chald. • Page 386

Same as the Hebrew (idem). Ref: Dan. 2:46, Ezra 7:17.

Noun common feminine singular construct

LXX: θυσίαν θυσίασ δῶρα θυσία θυσίαι

LXX Usage Statistics

H4503:

θυσίαν 67× (30.1%)

θυσίασ 30× (13.9%)

δῶρα 25× (12.4%)

θυσία 24× (11.8%)

θυσίαι 19× (8.2%)

μαναα 17× (7.8%)

--- 4× (2.1%)

ξένια 3× (1.6%)

σεμίδαλιν 3× (1.5%)

'' 3× (1.4%)

מרחשת מַרְחֶשֶׁת

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

מרחשת

marchesheth

Definition

a stewpan

Root

from H7370 (רחש);

Exhaustive

from רחש; a stewpan; fryingpan.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4802

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

רָחַשׁ

verb intransitive • Root רחש • Consonantal / Low • Page 1335

(only Kal) intr. 1. to boil up or over, to flow; fig. to boil over, of the לֵב.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

רָחַשׁ

verb • Consonantal / Low • Page 1336

prop. to move, like the Aram. רְחַשׁ; 2. to bubble up, to boil up; fundamental signification is to flow, to drip, to boil or bubble up, to bubble forth; to move away, to hasten away.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מַרְחֶשֶׁת

f. verbal n. • Root רחש • Page 407

A vessel for boiling or frying. Lev. 2:7, 7:9.

Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: ἐσχάρασ

LXX Usage Statistics

H4802:

ἐσχάρασ 2× (63.0%)

קרבנך קָרְבָּנֶךָ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

קרבן

qorbân

Definition

something brought near the altar, i.e. a sacrificial present

Root

or קרבן; from H7126 (קרב);

Exhaustive

or קרבן; from קרב; something brought near the altar, i.e. a sacrificial present; oblation, that is offered, offering.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7133

ך

Definition

your, personal posessive - noun suffix: 2nd person masculine singular

Root

Exhaustive

Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 2nd person masculine singular

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9021

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

קַרְבָּן

noun masculine • Root קרב • Page 595

A presenting or offering. Neh. 10: 35. 13: 31.

קָרְבָּן

noun masculine • Root קרב • Page 595

An offering, oblation of any kind. Lev. 2: 1, 4, 12, 13. 7: 13. 9: 7, 15.

Noun common both singular construct, Suffix pronominal second person masculine singular

LXX: δῶρον δῶρα --- δώρου δώρων

LXX Usage Statistics

H7133a:

δῶρον 57× (69.0%)

δῶρα 11× (13.3%)

--- 3× (4.2%)

δώρου 3× (3.8%)

δώρων 2× (2.4%)

δῶρόν 2× (2.4%)

סלת סֹלֶת

fine flour

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

סלת

çôleth

Definition

flour (as chipped off)

Root

from an unused root meaning to strip;

Exhaustive

from an unused root meaning to strip; flour (as chipped off); (fine) flour, meal.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5560

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

סֹלֶת

noun feminine • Root סלת • Strongs / High • Page 1025

Fine (pure) meal, i. e. what is best ground or fine flour of wheat.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

סֹלֶת

com. gen. • Page 478

Meal; wheat meal. Often used for fine flour. (Ex. 29:40; Lev. 2:5; Ezek. 16:13, 19; 1 Chr. 9:29; Gen. 18:6; Ex. 29:2).

Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: σεμιδάλεωσ σεμίδαλιν σεμίδαλισ

LXX Usage Statistics

H5560:

σεμιδάλεωσ 36× (66.9%)

σεμίδαλιν 9× (16.0%)

σεμίδαλισ 8× (15.2%)

בשמן בַּשֶּׁמֶן

in the Anointing Oil

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ב

bə

Definition

in, by

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix

Exhaustive

(beth) — in / within / by means of

Core value: interiority, enclosure, participation

ב does not primarily mean “in time” (“when”) or even “in space.” It marks being inside a domain, whether that domain is:
- spatial (house, land),
- conceptual (wisdom, covenant),
- modal (strength, fear),
- instrumental (by means of).
Aonically, ב marks immersion.
not “when X happened” but “within the state or field of X.”
This is why ב־יום does not need to mean “on the day (chronological)” but “within the day-realm / condition”.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

שמן

shemen

Definition

grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness

Root

from H8080 (שמן);

Exhaustive

from שמן; grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness; anointing, [idiom] fat (things), [idiom] fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, [phrase] pine.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H8081

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

שָׁמֵן

verb • Root שמנ • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1449

intransitive: to be thick, fat, corpulent; figuratively: to be rich, to shine with fatness, to pamper themselves.

Matched via consonantal key only

שָׁמֵן

adjective • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1449

juicy, nourishing, luxurious, excellent; fruitful, fat, well-fed; rich in spoil; powerful (of persons/warriors).

Matched via consonantal key only

שֶׁמֶן

noun masculine • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1450

1. Fatness, concr. fat meat, sumptuoust food, fruitfulness, strength. 2. Oil, juice, fat of pressed fruit (olive-oil), oil of anointing, ointment. 3. Wood of the wild olive-tree. 4. A medicinal thing.

Matched via consonantal key only

שׁמַן

noun • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1450

A ground-form base for derived numeral forms (eight, eighty, eighteen).

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

שֶׁמֶן

m. noun • Root שמן • Page 686

Oil, ointment (Cant. 1:3). Found with suffixes.

שֶׁמֶן

verb / dec. vi. a. • Root שמן • Page 687

1. fat, fatness (Ps. 109:24, Is. 25:6). 2. oil (Gen. 28:18, Neh. 8:15). 3. spiced oil, ointment (Ps. 133:2, Prov. 21:17).

שָׁמַן or שָׁמֵן

verb • Root שמן • Page 686

To be or become fat (Deut. 32:15; Jer. 5:28). Hiph: to make fat; e.g. the heart, i.e. to render it obdurate or insensible (Is. 6:10). Hithp: to become fat (Neh. 9:25).

Preposition -Within Art, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ἔλαιον ἐλαίῳ ἐλαίου '' pἐξ

LXX Usage Statistics

H8081:

ἔλαιον 58× (29.3%)

ἐλαίῳ 54× (26.0%)

ἐλαίου 42× (20.5%)

'' 5× (2.4%)

pἐξ 3× (1.7%)

--- 3× (1.7%)

ἔλαιόν 3× (1.2%)

ἀρκευθίνων 2× (1.1%)

ὡσ 2× (1.1%)

μύρον 2× (1.1%)

תעשה תֵּעָשֶׂה׃

she/yourself is making

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

עשה

ʻâsâh

Definition

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application; accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, [idiom] certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, [phrase] displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, [phrase] feast, (fight-) ing man, [phrase] finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, [phrase] hinder, hold (a feast), [idiom] indeed, [phrase] be industrious, [phrase] journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, [phrase] officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, [idiom] sacrifice, serve, set, shew, [idiom] sin, spend, [idiom] surely, take, [idiom] thoroughly, trim, [idiom] very, [phrase] vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H6213

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

עָשָׂה

verb • Root עשה • Strongs / High • Page 755

to make for

עָשָׂה

verb • Root עשה • Strongs / High • Page 1140

1. To do, to make, to form, to construct (e.g., an ark, altar, garments); to build up, to establish, to create. 2. To acquire (by labor); to make or procure a name (fame); to make money; to bring, to make (i.e., to be of use). Also, to prepare (food, sacrifice); to offer; to appoint, constitute to an office. 3. Metaphorically, to keep, to celebrate (a feast, e.g., Sabbath, Passover); to live through or spend the time of life; to perform, to practise, observe, to consider. 4. To do, generally without an object (good or evil); to deal with, execute upon. 5. Altogether generally to act, the interpretation being drawn from the context; to act considerately or falsely.

עָשָׂה

verb • Strongs / High • Page 1141

To do, to make, to prepare, to work, to act, to perform, to effect. Also: to bring forth, to beget; to give milk; to bear fruit; to put forth shoots; to be made, created, sacrificed, executed; to be committed (a crime); to be celebrated (a festival); to happen, to become. (Includes Nif. passive, Pih. to press/squeeze, Puh. to be made/created).

עָשָׂה

verb • Strongs / High • Page 1141

(unused) intr. to be shaggy, rough, rough-haired, of men; probably also of a rough, rugged forest-mountain.

עָשָׂה

verb • Strongs / High • Page 1139

(I) tr. 1. To feel, to touch. 2. To labour = to do; to work; to create (of God); to accomplish; to execute (a vow or wrath); to make, to form, fabricari.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

עָשַׂה

ii. in kal • Page 531

to press, squeeze, (the breast.) Ezekiel 23:21. (Chald. עֲשָׁא idem.)

עָשָׂה

verb • Root עשה • Page 530

To make, do, act. Extensive entry covering various nuances: 1. to make/do (Gen. 1:7); 2. to labour (Ex. 5:9); 3. to execute or accomplish (Ps. 37:5); 4. to prepare or dress food (Gen. 18:7); 5. to make or acquire riches (Gen. 31:1); 6. to pass or spend time (Ecc. 6:12); 7. to keep one's self or abide (Ruth 2:19); 8. to produce or bear fruit (Gen. 1:11); 9. to offer or present (Ex. 10:25); 10. to appoint to an office (1 Sam. 12:6); 11. to celebrate or keep a festival (Ex. 12:48).

עָשָׂה

verb • Page 532

1. to labour, fabricari. 2. to be made smooth or polished, to be bright, to shine. Jer. 5: 28. Hithpa. to think or be mindful of any one. Jon. 1: 6.

Verb Niphal imperfect third person feminine singular

LXX: ἐποίησεν ποιήσεισ ἐποίησαν ποιῆσαι ποιήσω

LXX Usage Statistics

H6213a:

ἐποίησεν 538× (20.3%)

ποιήσεισ 196× (7.3%)

ἐποίησαν 191× (7.2%)

ποιῆσαι 141× (5.2%)

ποιήσω 113× (4.3%)

ποιήσει 111× (4.2%)

'' 86× (2.9%)

ἐποίησασ 82× (3.2%)

ποιεῖν 79× (2.9%)

ποιήσετε 76× (2.9%)

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
And if a gift of the pot thine offering, fine flour with oil it shall be made.

LITV Translation:
And if your offering is a food offering on a griddle, your offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil;

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And if thy gift be a sacrifice from the hearth, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.