Leviticus 2:7

Summary

The verse gives instructions for a grain offering (minchah) cooked in a specific type of pan called marcheshet. It specifies that such an offering must be prepared from fine flour mixed with oil.

Key words

• min.Chat ("[is] a grain offering of", H4503G) — feminine singular construct, linking the offering-type to the following noun specifying its preparation method.
• mar.Che.shet ("a baking pan", H4802) — feminine singular noun identifying the specific cooking vessel/method distinguishing this offering from others in the chapter.
• ka.re.ba.Ne.cha ("your offering", H7133A + H9021) — construct noun with second-person masculine singular suffix; ties the general term "offering" back to the addressee, producing an apposition with the preceding marcheshet offering.
• So.let ("fine flour", H5560) — feminine singular, the base material specified as the offering's substance.
• te.'a.Seh ("it will be made", H6213H) — niphal (passive) imperfect, third-person feminine singular; the subject (fine flour) undergoes the action without a stated agent.

What the text says

The clause opens with the conditional particle 'im ("if", H0518A), introducing a case among several types of grain offerings described in this chapter. The construct chain minchat marcheshet ("grain-offering of pan") names the category, while qorbanecha ("your offering") follows in apposition, restating that this pan-cooked minchah is "your offering" — the one brought by the addressee. This creates a slightly discontinuous construction: the noun minchat is in construct with marcheshet, but the pronominal reference to the offerer is attached to the second noun qorban, not to minchat itself.

The main clause states the required composition: solet ("fine flour", H5560) "with the oil" (ba-shemen, H8081 with article) — a prepositional phrase indicating the flour is mixed or combined with oil. The verb te'aseh is niphal, meaning the flour "will be made" or "will be prepared" — grammatically passive, so no human or divine agent is named as the one doing the preparing. This passive construction shifts focus onto the material process itself rather than the person performing it, a feature not always preserved when translations render it as an active imperative ("it must consist of...").

Differences between versions

The LXX renders marcheshet ("baking pan", H4802) as eschara ("griddle" or "gridiron"), and the Vulgate similarly uses craticula ("small grill/gridiron"). Both Greek and Latin thus specify a different cooking implement — an open grill-type surface — where the Hebrew term denotes an enclosed pan. The Hebrew niphal te'aseh ("it will be made") is rendered in the LXX with the passive future poiethesetai ("it will be made"), maintaining the passive voice, while the Vulgate uses conspergetur ("shall be sprinkled/moistened"), which shifts the verbal sense from general "making" to the more specific action of sprinkling or moistening the flour with oil.