What Does Leviticus 22:4 Mean?

“What man soever”

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

“What man soever”

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

“of the seed”

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

“of Aaron”

aharon, the brother of moses

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“is a leper”

to scourge, i.e., (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy

desire (and so probably in proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

“or hath a running issue”

to flow freely (as water), i.e., (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow

“of the holy things”

a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity

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

“he shall not eat”

to eat (literally or figuratively)

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“until he be clean”

to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)

“And whoso toucheth”

properly, to touch, i.e., lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive

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

“any thing that is unclean”

foul in a religious sense

“by the dead”

properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment

desire (and so probably in proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

“What man soever”

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“goeth”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

a lying down (of dew, or for the sexual act)

“of the seed”

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