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Leviticus 16

Lev. 16:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he shall wash
rachats (Hebrew #7364)
to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
KJV usage: bathe (self), wash (self).
Pronounce: raw-khats'
Origin: a primitive root
his flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
with water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
in the holy
qadowsh (Hebrew #6918)
from 6942; sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
KJV usage: holy (One), saint.
Pronounce: kaw-doshe'
Origin: or qadosh {kaw-doshe'}
place
maqowm (Hebrew #4725)
also (feminine) mqowmah {mek-o-mah'}; or mqomah {mek-o-mah'}; from 6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
KJV usage: country, X home, X open, place, room, space, X whither(-soever).
Pronounce: maw-kome'
Origin: or maqom {maw-kome'}
, and put on
labash (Hebrew #3847)
a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: (in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear.
Pronounce: law-bash'
Origin: or labesh {law-bashe'}
his garments
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
, and come forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
, and offer
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
his burnt offering
`olah (Hebrew #5930)
feminine active participle of 5927; a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
KJV usage: ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also 5766.
Pronounce: o-law'
Origin: or mowlah {o-law'}
, and the burnt offering
`olah (Hebrew #5930)
feminine active participle of 5927; a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
KJV usage: ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also 5766.
Pronounce: o-law'
Origin: or mowlah {o-law'}
of the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
, and make an atonement
kaphar (Hebrew #3722)
to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel
KJV usage: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
Pronounce: kaw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
for himself, and for the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
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Atonement,
Burnt Offering or Sacrifice,
Flesh,
Garments,
Offering; Offering Up,
Washing

Cross References

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wash.
Lev. 16:4• 4A holy linen coat he shall put on, and linen breeches shall be upon his flesh; and he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen miter shall he be attired: these [are] holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. (Lev. 16:4)
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Lev. 8:6• 6And Moses brought Aaron near, and his sons, and bathed them with water. (Lev. 8:6)
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Lev. 14:9• 9And it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave: and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. (Lev. 14:9)
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Lev. 22:6• 6the person that hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. (Lev. 22:6)
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Ex. 29:4• 4And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring near the entrance of the tent of meeting, and shalt bathe them with water. (Ex. 29:4)
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Heb. 9:10• 10only with meats and drinks and different washings, ordinances of flesh imposed until a season of rectification. (Heb. 9:10)
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Heb. 10:19‑22• 19Having therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus,
 20a new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
 21and [having] a great priest over the house of God,
 22let us approach with true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:19‑22)
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Rev. 1:5‑6• 5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us and washed us from our sins in his blood,
 6and he made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him be the glory and the might unto the ages of the ages. Amen. (Rev. 1:5‑6)
his garments.
Lev. 8:7‑9• 7And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the curiously wrought girdle of the ephod, and fastened the ephod on him.
 8And he placed the breast-plate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.
 9And he set the miter on his head, and on the miter in front did he set the golden plate, the holy diadem; as Jehovah commanded Moses. (Lev. 8:7‑9)
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Ex. 28:4‑14• 4And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a cloak, and a checkered vest, a turban, and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may serve me as priest.
 5And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus,
 6and shall make the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, scarlet and twined byssus, of artistic work.
 7It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined at the two ends thereof, where it is joined together.
 8And the girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to its work of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet and twined byssus.
 9And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:
 10six of their names on the one stone, and the six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
 11According to the work of an engraver in stone, as the engravings of a seal, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; surrounded by enclosures of gold shalt thou make them.
 12And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
 13And thou shalt make enclosures of gold;
 14and two chains of pure gold; of laced work shalt thou make them, of wreathen work, and fasten the wreathen chains to the enclosures. (Ex. 28:4‑14)
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Ex. 29:5• 5And thou shalt take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the vest, and the cloak of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and shalt gird him with the girdle of the ephod. (Ex. 29:5)
his burnt.
Lev. 16:3,5• 3Thus shall Aaron come into the sanctuary, with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.
 5And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. (Lev. 16:3,5)
and make.
Lev. 16:17• 17And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth in to make atonement in the sanctuary until he come out; and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for the whole congregation of Israel. (Lev. 16:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and he shall bathe his flesh with water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and go forth, and offer his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself, and for the people.

W. Kelly Translation

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and he shall wash his flesh with water in thea holy place, and put on his garments, and go forth, and offer his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, a holy.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)