Leviticus 7:33

Summary

The verse specifies that the priest who performs the act of presenting the blood and fat of the peace offerings — specifically one from among the sons of Aaron — is entitled to receive the right thigh as his allotted portion.

Key words

• mak.Riv ("one who presents", H7126H) — hiphil participle, indicating the person actively performing the causative action of "bringing near/presenting" the offering.
• mi ("one of / from", H9006) — preposition with partitive force, singling out one particular priest from the larger group of Aaron's sons.
• be.Nei ("sons of", H1121A) — construct form, linking directly to 'a.ha.Ron ("Aaron", H0175) to form the phrase "sons of Aaron."
• tihYeh ("it will belong", H1961) — qal imperfect, third-person feminine, grammatically agreeing with the feminine noun shoq ("thigh") rather than with the masculine participant.
• shoq ("thigh of", H7785) — feminine singular construct, forming a construct chain with ha.yaMin ("the right", H3225G) to specify exactly which body part is meant.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence opens with a nominalized participle, ha.makRiv ("the one presenting"), functioning as the subject of the whole verse. This participle is modified by the prepositional phrase mi.bbeNei 'ahaRon ("from among the sons of Aaron"), using the partitive preposition mi (H9006) to indicate that the priest in question is one selected from that group, not the whole group collectively. The object of the participle is expressed through two direct-object markers ('et, H0853), joining dam ha.shelaMim ("the blood of the peace offerings") and ha.Chelev ("the fat") as the two things presented.

The second half of the verse shifts to the result: lo tihyeh shoq ha.yaMin le.maNah — "to him it will belong, the right thigh, as a portion." The verb tihyeh (H1961) is feminine because it agrees with the grammatically feminine noun shoq ("thigh," H7785), which functions as the delayed subject of the clause even though it appears after the verb — a common Hebrew word order where subject follows verb. The final word, le.maNah ("as a portion", H4490), marks the purpose or classification of the thigh being given: it is not a random allocation but a defined portion tied by construct-phrase (shoq ha.yaMin, "thigh of the right [side]") to the priest performing the specific ritual action.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate renders "sanguinem et adipem filiorum Aaron" ("the blood and fat of the sons of Aaron"), attaching filiorum Aaron directly to the offering materials rather than to the participant performing the action. The Hebrew text and the RV1909/SBLIBRE translations instead attach the phrase "sons of Aaron" to the one presenting the offering ("the one from among the sons of Aaron who offers"), reflecting the partitive use of mi (H9006) in the source text. The BSB smooths this into "the son of Aaron," making explicit an individual agent where the Hebrew's participial construction leaves the referent implicit within the partitive phrase.