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# לֹג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3849

**log** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

log [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3849/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֹג: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3849/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 14:10 a liquid measure (NH id.; Aramaic לוּגָּה; also ܠܰܓܳܐ, ܠܰܓܬܳܐ a (dessert-)dish, etc.; meaning of √ dub.; Thes comp. Arabic لَجَّ be deep, لُجٌّ depth, abyss);—ל׳ abs. Lv 14:10; cstr. v 12 + 3 times Lv 14; always of oil (שֶׁמֶן); Lv 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24 (P; all in law of purif. of leper); according to Talm. = 1/12 hin (v. הִין supr. p. 228; Zuckermann Jüd. Masssystem, 49) i.e. c. 1/2 litre; BenzArch. 182, 184 NowArch. i. 204 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a log (2); the log (2); of the log (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 14:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.15/#tree)

וְלָקַ֥ח הַכֹּהֵ֖ן מִלֹּ֣ג הַשָּׁ֑מֶן וְיָצַ֛ק עַל־כַּ֥ף הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take the priest some of.the.log of.(the) oil and he.will.pour.\[it\] on the.palm of the.priest (the) left

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.

[Leviticus 14:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.24/#tree)

וְלָקַ֧ח הַכֹּהֵ֛ן אֶת־כֶּ֥בֶשׂ הָאָשָׁ֖ם וְאֶת־לֹ֣ג הַשָּׁ֑מֶן וְהֵנִ֨יף אֹתָ֧ם הַכֹּהֵ֛ן תְּנוּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take the priest (et) the.male.lamb of the.guilt.offering and (et) the.log of.(the) oil and he.will.wave them the priest a.wave-offering before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3849.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3849/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).