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Leviticus 16:21
“And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5564 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- סָמַ֨ךְ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 48 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 27:37Exodus 29:10Exodus 29:15Exodus 29:19Leviticus 1:4
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 סָמַךְ 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.