What Does Leviticus 7:17 Mean?
But the remainder of the flesh of the slaughter on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.THE KEY
The offering has a boundary in time: what remains on the third day becomes fuel, not food.
THE MEANING
The offering has an appointed span for sharing; by the third day, the flesh left over is consumed by fire. The remainder is not carried forward as stored provision. The verse gives the sacred act a real ending.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that what is given must be preserved indefinitely: here, the remainder is consumed at the stated boundary.
THE ROOT
הַנּוֹתָר
hannōṯār
GROWS FROM
יתר
y-t-r
to remain over, be left, or exceed
The remainder is not simply a piece left behind: hannōṯār comes from the root for what remains over or exceeds. The verse marks a limit for that excess: by the third day it is not kept as future provision but given to fire.
ALSO GROWS
yāṯar: to remain over; to exceed
יָתַר
The verb shows the remainder as what extends beyond the portion already used.
yitrōn: surplus; advantage; profit
יִתְרוֹן
This branch names what remains as surplus, sharpening the verse’s focus on what exceeds the offering’s appointed span.
יִשָּׂרֵף
yissāref
GROWS FROM
שרף
ś-r-p
to burn; to consume by fire
“burnt” in this verse is yissāref. The root gives the ending its full force: the remainder is consumed by burning. Fire is the stated fate of what remains beyond the offering’s appointed time.
ALSO GROWS
śāraph: to burn; consume with fire
שָׂרַף
This verb is the root action expressed in the verse’s command.
śerāphim: fiery ones; seraphim
שְׂרָפִים
The related name carries the same burning quality, showing how the root family keeps the force of fire concrete.
THE PATTERN
Provision has an appointed span; what remains beyond it is not carried forward.
And you will let none of it remain until the morning; what remains of it until the morning you will burn with fire.And Moses said, Let no one leave any of it until the morning.THE THREAD
And you will let none of it remain until the morning; what remains of it until the morning you will burn with fire.Both verses use the root יתר (y-t-r), meaning to remain over or exceed, for what is left. The shared root ties the remainder to the boundary: what exceeds its appointed span is not kept but burned.
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