Leviticus 4:5

Summary

Leviticus 4:5 describes the anointed priest taking a portion of the blood of the bull and bringing it into the Tent of Meeting. The verse consists of two sequential actions: taking blood and transporting it to a specific location.

Key words

• la.Kach ("he will take", H3947) — qal sequential perfect; continues the narrative chain of prescribed actions, indicating this action follows logically from a prior step in the ritual sequence.
• ha.Ko.hen ha.Ma.shi.ach ("the anointed priest", H3548 + H4899) — noun with definite article followed by a second definite adjective/participle also carrying the article; both nouns are definite, marking a specific, identified priest rather than any priest.
• mi.Dam ("some of the blood of", H9006 + H1818) — the preposition min ("some of/from") attached to a construct noun Dam; the construct form links "blood" to "the bull" (ha.Par), and the prefixed preposition indicates a partitive sense — not all the blood, but a portion of it.
• he.Vi' ("he will bring", H0935) — hiphil (causative) sequential perfect; the causative stem indicates the priest causes the blood to move/enter, distinct from a simple motion verb.
• 'O.hel mo.'Ed ("tent of meeting", H0168 + H4150) — construct chain naming the specific structure; 'O.hel ("tent") governs mo.'Ed ("meeting") to form the proper designation of this sanctuary space.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built on two sequential perfect verbs (la.Kach and he.Vi'), both continuing a narrative chain begun earlier in the chapter with the vav-conjunction (H9001) at the start of each clause. This grammatical construction (vav + sequential perfect) signals that these actions follow a preceding instruction in unbroken procedural order — first the taking, then the bringing.

The subject, ha.Ko.hen ha.Ma.shi.ach ("the priest, the anointed one"), uses a double definite-article construction: both "priest" and "anointed" carry the article ha (H9009), marking this as a specific, previously identified figure rather than a generic role.

The phrase mi.Dam ha.Par combines the partitive preposition min with the construct form Dam ("blood of"), meaning the priest takes only a portion of the blood, not its entirety — the construct chain Dam ha.Par ("blood of the bull") specifies the source.

The verb he.Vi' is hiphil, a causative stem: the priest does not simply "go" but causes the blood to be brought — the direct object marker 'oto (H0853 + H9033, "it") confirms that "it" (the blood) is what is caused to move into the 'O.hel mo.'Ed ("tent of meeting"), a construct phrase naming the specific tabernacle location.