Leviticus 2:15

And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
put	וְנָתַתָּ֤ ve.na.ta.Ta	H5414	to give · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
oil	שֶׁ֔מֶן She.men	H8081	grease · noun, common masculine singular absolute
lay	וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ ve.sam.Ta	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
frankincense	לְבֹנָ֑ה le.vo.Nah	H3828	frankincense (from its whiteness or perhaps that of its… · noun, common feminine singular absolute
offering	מִנְחָ֖ה min.Chah	H4503	a donation · noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 2:11–end

Here, I. Leaven and honey are forbidden to be put in any of their meat-offerings: No leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire, Lev 2:11. 1. The leaven was forbidden in remembrance of the unleavened bread they ate when they came out of Egypt. So much despatch was required in the offerings they made that it was not convenient they should stay for the leavening of them. The New Testament comparing pride and hypocrisy to leaven because they swell like leaven, comparing also malice and wickedness to leaven because they sour like leaven, we are to understand and improve this as a caution to take heed of those sins which will certainly spoil the acceptableness of our spiritual sacrifices…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 2:14

a meat offering of thy first-fruits--From the mention of "green ears," this seems to have been a voluntary offering before the harvest--the ears being prepared in the favorite way of Eastern people, by parching them at the fire, and then beating them out for use. It was designed to be an early tribute of pious thankfulness for the earth's increase, and it was offered according to the usual directions. Next: Leviticus Chapter 3

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 2:14

Green ears of corn dried by the fire - Green or half-ripe ears of wheat parched with fire is a species of food in use among the poor people of Palestine and Egypt to the present day. As God is represented as keeping a table among his people, (for the tabernacle was his house, where he had the golden table, shewbread, etc)., so he represents himself as partaking with them of all the aliments that were in use, and even sitting down with the poor to a repast on parched corn! We have already seen that these green ears were presented as a sort of eucharistical offering for the blessings of seed time, and the prospect of a plentiful harvest. See Clarke's note on Lev 2:1; several other examples mig…

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John Gill

Dictionary and topics

Bread — Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other…
Cake — Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered “to the queen of heaven” (Jer.…
Law of Moses — Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written…
Meat-offering — (Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word came latterly to denote an “unbloody” sacrifice, as opposed to a “bloody” sacrifice. A “drink-offering” generally accompanied it. The…
First Fruits · required as an offering — required as an offering
Frankincense · Used with meat offerings — Used with meat offerings
Incense · Put on meat offerings — Put on meat offerings
Meat Offerings · Oil and incense used with — Oil and incense used with
Offerings · Different kinds of: Meat — Different kinds of: Meat

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Leviticus 2:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 2:11–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 2:14

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 2:14

John Gill

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 2:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 2:11–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 2:14

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 2:14

John Gill

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 2:14–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 2:14–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 2:13

Rashi on Leviticus 2:14