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Leviticus 1:12
“And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5408 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to dismember
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- cut (in pieces), divide, hew in pieces.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- נִתַּ֤ח — verb Piel, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 9 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 29:17Leviticus 1:6Leviticus 8:20Judges 19:29Judges 20:6
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָתַח here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.