Leviticus 21:22
Strong's Lexicon
He may eat
יֹאכֵֽל׃ (yō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: 1) to eat, devour, burn up, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to eat (human subject) 1a2) to eat, devour (of beasts and birds) 1a3) to devour, consume (of fire) 1a4) to devour, slay (of sword) 1a5) to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects - ie, pestilence, drought) 1a6) to devour (of oppression) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be eaten (by men) 1b2) to be devoured, consumed (of fire) 1b3) to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh) 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to cause to eat, feed with 1c2) to cause to devour 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to feed 1d2) to cause to eat 1e) (Piel) 1e1) consume

the most
מִקָּדְשֵׁ֖י (miq·qā·ḏə·šê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6944: 1) apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness 1a) apartness, sacredness, holiness 1a1) of God 1a2) of places 1a3) of things 1b) set-apartness, separateness

holy
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֑ים (haq·qo·ḏā·šîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6944: 1) apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness 1a) apartness, sacredness, holiness 1a1) of God 1a2) of places 1a3) of things 1b) set-apartness, separateness

food
לֶ֣חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3899: 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)

of his God
אֱלֹהָ֔יו (’ĕ·lō·hāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 430: 1) (plural) 1a) rulers, judges 1b) divine ones 1c) angels 1d) gods 2) (plural intensive-singular meaning) 2a) god, goddess 2b) godlike one 2c) works or special possessions of God 2d) the (true) God 2e) God

as well as
וּמִן־ (ū·min-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4480: prep 1) from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than 1a) from (expressing separation), off, on the side of 1b) out of 1b1) (with verbs of proceeding, removing, expelling) 1b2) (of material from which something is made) 1b3) (of source or origin) 1c) out of, some of, from (partitively) 1d) from, since, after (of time) 1e) than, more than (in comparison) 1f) from...even to, both...and, either...or 1g) than, more than, too much for (in comparisons) 1h) from, on account of, through, because (with infinitive) conj 2) that

the holy [food],
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖ים (haq·qo·ḏā·šîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6944: 1) apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness 1a) apartness, sacredness, holiness 1a1) of God 1a2) of places 1a3) of things 1b) set-apartness, separateness

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

Young's Literal Translation
‘Bread of his God—of the most holy things, and of the holy things—he doth eat;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy .

New American Standard Bible
He may eat the food of his God, [both] of the most holy and of the holy,

King James Bible
He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the holy.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;

New Living Translation
However, he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings.

English Standard Version
He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

New American Standard Bible
He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

King James Bible
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.

International Standard Version
However, he may eat the food of his God, including the most holy and the holy offerings,

NET Bible
He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

American Standard Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

English Revised Version
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Young's Literal Translation
'Bread of his God -- of the most holy things, and of the holy things -- he doth eat;
















Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Leviticus 21:23
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Leviticus 22:25
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

Leviticus 1:1
And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

Leviticus 21:21
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21:20
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

Leviticus 21:19
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

Leviticus 21:24
And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

Leviticus 22:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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