What Does Leviticus 22:13 Mean?

“daughter”

a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)

“But if the priest's”

literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“be a widow”

a widow; also a desolate place

“or divorced”

to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce

“and have no child”

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“and is returned”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

near, with or among; often in general, to

“house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“of her father's”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“as in her youth”

(only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)

“meat”

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

“of her father's”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“eat”

to eat (literally or figuratively)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“but there shall no stranger”

to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“eat”

to eat (literally or figuratively)