What Does Leviticus 8:32 Mean?
And what remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn 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
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.THE KEY
The Hebrew root for “what remains” also yields “surplus” and “profit,” so the excess is still part of the act’s reckoning.
THE MEANING
What remains of the flesh and bread still has a defined end; the verse keeps the leftover within the act rather than leaving it unaccounted for. Fire consumes what remains, so completion reaches the surplus too.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that only the portion first set apart matters dissolves here: the remainder also receives a defined fate.
THE ROOT
הַנּוֹתָר
hanotar
GROWS FROM
יתר
To remain over, be left as surplus, or exceed.
“what remains” in this verse is hanotar. English gives this form as “remaineth,” but the root also names what is left over as surplus; from that seed comes יִתְרוֹן (yitron, “profit, advantage”). The leftover is not linguistically outside the account: the verse’s fire reaches even what exceeds the first portion.
ALSO GROWS
yeter: Remainder, surplus; what remains over.
יֶתֶר
It makes the surplus meaning inside “remaineth” visible: what remains is what is over.
yitron: Profit, advantage; what is gained.
יִתְרוֹן
This branch links what remains over with what counts as gain, showing that the remainder belongs to the larger reckoning.
THE PATTERN
What remains after the main portion is still accounted for and given a definite fate.
And you will let none of it remain until the morning; what remains of it until the morning you will burn with fire.What remains to a man from all the toil that he toils under the sun?When they were filled, he said to his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces that remain, so that nothing perishes.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 הַנּוֹתָר (hanotar, “what remains over”), from יתר (yathar, “remain over”), and both end the remainder in fire. The shared wording shows that what remains is included in the portion’s full completion.
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